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LHC restart date now June at earliest
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator will go live again in June at the earliest, following the fault that shut it down in September. The particle beams are held on their paths by dipole magnets and focused by quadrupole magnets.
[November 18, 2008, 14:44]
LHC restart pushed back again
News The flagship particle accelerator at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) is to be restarted in October as opposed to September. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago, runs at 1 TeV.
[June 22, 2009, 13:38]
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. Synchronisation between the SPS and the LHC to within a fraction of a nanosecond is crucial to the LHC...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
First phase of supercollider grid goes live
News The European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) said on Monday it has launched the first phase of its ambitious computing network, designed to process the terabytes of data generated by an upcoming particle accelerator.
[September 29, 2003, 17:50]
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The particle accelerator, which is in an underground location spanning the French-Swiss border, was started up for the...
[November 20, 2009, 23:03]
Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates
News The world's largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration. It's nice to know the LHC is able to work as a particle accelerator. The accelerator was off on Tuesday so engineers could tweak the...
[November 24, 2009, 11:49]
LHC sets world record for particle acceleration
News The recently restarted Large Hadron Collider has become the world's most powerful particle accelerator, after setting a new record for beam intensity. The particle accelerator performed its first collisions on 23 November.
[November 30, 2009, 15:01]
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 particle accelerator was designed primarily as an attempt to produce the 'Higgs boson' — a hypothetical...
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
News On Friday, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Cern's flagship particle accelerator. The particle accelerator was damaged by a liquid helium leak in September, nine days into...
[December 10, 2008, 15:55]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator to date, the system is designed to recreate the conditions that existed a millionth of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, or the birth of the universe.
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News Grey notes that the particle accelerator is likely to be up and running for a decade, meaning they not only need to predict what will be the latest and greatest technology in 2007, but also which architectures will persevere throughout the life of...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
LHC disaster.
Talkback Zealous, jealous, Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life...
[October 21, 2008, 21:23]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News The LHC, the world's largest particle collider, is located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground. Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (or Cern), it promises to push...
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
LHC on course for November restart
News The world's largest particle accelerator is on course for a November restart. Six out of eight superconducting sectors are down to working cryogenic temperatures, according to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News The European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) flagship particle accelerator has been out of action since September, when an electrical fault called a halt to an experiment to understand the fundamental physics of matter.
[May 27, 2009, 17:02]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News The Large Hadron Collider could be restarted at the end of September — a year after the world's largest particle accelerator was knocked off line by an electrical malfunction. An investigation concluded that the malfunction was caused by a faulty...
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) to conduct experiments to test fundamental physics theories and to search for important new science such as the Higgs Boson.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
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. A Cern statement on Thursday confirmed that the cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
LHC restart pushed back further
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator is designed to smash beams of protons into each other, test fundamental physics theories and help understand the nature of matter. The accelerator operations group at Cern came up with two possible...
[November 28, 2008, 13:47]
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]
