Those beams will be smashed together, and the resulting spray of particles will be analyzed. These huge detectors will handle as much as 10 million pieces of information for each collision in the beam pipe. Experimenters at the LHC are looking for clues to the origins of the laws governing nature. By creating the conditions that existed less than a billionth of a second after the Big Bang occurred. Right now, the universe is fairly cool, temperature-wise.
Materials behave differently at high temperatures.
But let them cool down and form a solid, and you get a metal that can conduct electricity and create a magnetic field. They expect to find the Higgs field, which fills the universe uniformly and interacts with particles, giving them mass.