Ten years after it was approved, CERN’s new accelerator is officially inaugurated

The first collisions with stable beams were delivered to the LHC experiments on 23 May, after three weeks of commissioning with beams

Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017

At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

On Saturday, 29 April, two days ahead of schedule, beams were circulating again in the LHC

For the first time this year, the LHC is circulating beams of protons, following a 17-week-long extended technical stop

The powering tests of the LHC circuits are a big part of the machine re-commissioning: almost 1600 circuits have to be tested in just few weeks

The Super Proton Synchrotron is the last accelerator that had to awaken before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider in 2017

The accelerator chain and the experiments that it serves are gradually awakening after the extended year-end technical stop (EYETS)

Almost ready: the LHC and its injectors are starting up one after the other