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Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the...
[October 7, 2008, 13:38]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News Officials announced on Tuesday that the Large Hadron Collider will remain shut down until at least early spring. The LHC, the world's largest particle collider, is located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about...
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
Vacuum leaks lead to more Hadron Collider delays
News The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment. The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a...
[July 21, 2009, 13:00]
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The final replacement magnet for the Large Hadron Collider has been lowered into the giant particle accelerator's tunnel. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) announced the completion of the LHC's above-ground repair work on Thursday.
[May 1, 2009, 15:38]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News Not long after the Large Hadron Collider was launched last week, the world's largest particle collider experienced a malfunction affecting its cooling operations. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the organisation that built...
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
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]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on 10 September. The second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) beam synchronisation systems took...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The Large Hadron Collider will be turned on again at the beginning of April, according to Cern director general Robert Aymar. The LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern...
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News A date has finally been announced for the switching on of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is located in a 27km-long circular tunnel that lies beneath the Franco-Swiss border.
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider goes live
News Two decades' worth of planning became reality on Wednesday, as physicists turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. The largest machine in the world — and arguably the biggest scientific experiment in history — the LHC is designed to...
[September 10, 2008, 13:38]
Scientists' goals for the Large Hadron Collider
News The goal of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider is to recreate what the universe was like just nanoseconds after it began. The particle physics at the core of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be daunting for those who last...
[September 29, 2008, 12:02]
Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider
News Hackers have broken into a computer system at Cern's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but appear to have done no major damage, according to a report on Friday in the The Daily Telegraph.
[September 15, 2008, 8:04]
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. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is the world's largest machine, is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel located 100m under the...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially...
[October 6, 2008, 9:51]
Culprit found for latest LHC leaks
News The latest delays to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider are likely to have been caused by a faulty hose, according to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The hose vented helium into the vacuum insulation of the Large Hadron...
[August 3, 2009, 16:01]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), built to smash atoms and enable the study of subatomic particles, was shut down on 19 September due to a malfunction, only nine days after it was powered up. The Large Hadron Collider is housed in a 27km concrete...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
LHC disaster.
Talkback September 24, 2008 - 'LHC on hold until spring of 2009' - PhysicsWorld.com: "The magnet failure last week at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) means that the accelerator will not be up and running again until early spring of 2009, say officials at...
[October 21, 2008, 21:23]
Grid survives nuclear test
News The institutions behind the grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of on average 600MB per second for 10 days between the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva...
[April 26, 2005, 11:15]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), near Geneva, is the organisation behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientific facility, a giant experiment that Cern hopes will help it discover more information than is currently known...
[October 9, 2009, 17:34]
Cern paves the way for lightning-speed networks
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being switched on in August at Cern in...
[July 16, 2008, 9:30]
