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LHC and experiments give round-up of first three years

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

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13 December, 2012
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13 December, 2012

LHC and experiments give status updates at CERN

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

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13 December, 2012
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13 December, 2012

Webcast: LHC experiments present status update

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

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13 December, 2012
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13 December, 2012

Fundamental Physics Prize honours ATLAS, CMS and LHC

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

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11 December, 2012
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11 December, 2012

LHC report: omnium-gatherum

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

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03 December, 2012
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03 December, 2012

LHC report: Level best

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

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Accelerators
20 November, 2012
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20 November, 2012

LHC report: Ticking over

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

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Accelerators
22 October, 2012
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22 October, 2012

LHC experiments already planning for long shutdown

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013

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Accelerators
18 September, 2012
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18 September, 2012

LHC collides protons with lead ions for the first time

The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges

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13 September, 2012
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13 September, 2012

LHC Report: Rocky XIV

The LHC has been in luminosity production mode for a couple of weeks - the total integrated luminosity for the year has passed 14 inverse femtobarns

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10 September, 2012
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10 September, 2012