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Large Hadron Collider run to be extended by seven weeks
LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update
Could LEIR serve biomedicine?
At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community
LHC Report: Summer temperatures in the LHC
The LHC has delivered more collisions so far this year than in the whole of 2011 - so many it's overheating the magnets
LHC experiments prepare for summer conferences
CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia
LHC delivers more collisions than in the whole of 2011
Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year
Full moon pulls LHC from its protons
The LHC is so large that operators have to correct for a surprising source of error - the moon's gravitational pull
Forty years of the PS Booster
The Proton Synchrotron (PS) Booster – a key accelerator in the CERN complex – is 40 years old this month
LHC Report: First collisions soon
On 16 March beams in the LHC reached the world-record energy of 4 TeV. Stable-beams mode is planned for 3 weeks from now
LHC physics underway at record collision energy of 8TeV
At 12.38pm CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams"
Trigger happy in Poland: Krakow hosts ISOTDAQ 2012
In February, Krakow hosted the third International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition (ISOTDAQ), which gives students practical TDAQ experience