Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) announced the completion of the LHC's above-ground repair work on Thursday. By Cern's latest reckoning, the system will be turned on again in late September 2009.
[May 1, 2009, 15:38]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News Cern has confirmed that an electrical fault was the cause of a liquid helium leak in its flagship particle accelerator. Robert Aymar, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), told ZDNet.co.uk earlier this month...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground, was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News The first attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the tunnel will take place on 10 September, according to a Thursday statement by the LHC's builders, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), which runs the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), previously suggested the apparatus would be restarted in April. Repair time aside, the process will also be slowed down by the fact that the LHC...
[November 18, 2008, 14:44]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News The second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) beam synchronisation systems took place on Friday evening in a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, according to a Monday statement from the European Organization for Nuclear...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (or Cern), it promises to push forward theories of particle physics, such as the Higgs Boson, and the fundamental building blocks of all things.
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Cern, the organisation that built the LHC, announced on Monday that it expects the first beams to begin in September, with the first collisions expected by late October.
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
News So at CERN's reception, supernovae explode for your pleasure. As the company is a partner of the CERN European high-energy physics laboratory — and sponsor of its Openlab data processing centre — what better place for the launch than the site of...
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News Shortly before 8.30am on Wednesday, scientists at Cern turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. By smashing particles together at unprecedented — in man-made terms — energies, the scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
News Researchers at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, face a truly immense storage challenge. In short, this means that CERN's scientists have an awful lot of data on their hands. This is far too large for a single datacentre," said...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
