As the 2016 LHC run ends, the machine has transcended the dreams of its designers

Ready (after a machine development period), steady (running), go (for a special run)!

Electrical equipment that was damaged by the beech marten has been repaired. The LHC is back on track with ever higher beam intensity.

The increase in total beam currents has flushed out two major but familiar issues

Following the first 3.5 TeV collisions in March 2010, the LHC had three years of improving integrated luminosity

The proton-lead run was an unqualified success and a testament to painstaking preparation by the ion team