In preparation for a physics run in 2015, the source for Linac 3 is being adapted to carry argon ions

Testing of the LHC's main magnet circuits - dipole and quadrupole - has been completed

Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the LHC

The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data

The upgrade and maintenance of the LHC (LS1 - first long shutdown) started with the tests of most of the electromagnetic circuits

The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider

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

On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period

At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown (LS1) is about to start