Remarkable first three-year run of LHC comes to an end, marked by the LHC controllers with a Douglas Adams reference

Remarkable first three-year run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator crowned by a new performance milestone

Hall 300, which houses CERN’s first accelerator, is being prepared to host a new exhibition

Highlights included sensitive searches for new physics, the decay of a Bs meson, quark-gluon plasma and insights on the structure of the proton

Today in the CERN auditorium teams from the LHC and its experiments will present the current status of the accelerator and detectors

The LHC experiments will each give a brief presentation in the CERN auditorium today. Watch the webcast

Seven leaders of the LHC, CMS and ATLAS projects will share a $3m prize for advancing knowledge of the universe

The last couple of weeks have seen a mixed bag of special runs, luminosity production, machine development and down-time

The number of the events the detector can handle per bunch crossing is limited. Even so, LHCb wants to integrate as much luminosity as possible

The past two weeks have seen luminosity production rates vary somewhat but the overall upwards slope has remained steady