The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has been switched off since last two years. Earlier, the research organization announced that the world's largest and most powerful particle collider is ready to start again, but according to new reports, it could take some more time in restarting the collider.

According to CERN, seven of the collider's eight sectors have been charged to run at operating energy of about 6.5 trillion electron volts every beam. However, there was a technical hitch with the eighth sector. According to the reports, on March 21, one of LHC's magnet circuits experienced a sporadic short circuit.

While providing information about the glitch, the European research organization said that researchers have recognized the issue and it could take some time to fix it. According to the organization, the problem has occurred in the cold section of the collider, and fixing it may need the sector to be warmed up and then re-cooled after the repair.

CERN's Director for Accelerators Frédérick Bordry said any cryogenic machine is a time amplifier. As per Bordry it could take some weeks to fix the issue. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, said, "All the signs are good for a great run 2. In the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay in humankind's quest to understand our universe is little more than the blink of an eye".

The reports stated that the researchers will take the rest of the year to all the upgrades. Physics experiments are estimated to take place between 2016 and 2018. For the last two years, CERN researchers have been working to maintain the collider. In 2012, the energy was at 8 trillion electron volts.

While maintaining the LHC, the researchers replace about 18 of the collider's 1,232 superconducting dipole magnets.