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

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

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

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

The re-filling of the arcs with liquid helium started last week, and the LHC is gradually being prepared for electrical tests at the end of the month

As the 2016 LHC run ends, the machine has transcended the dreams of its designers

How the injector chain has contributed to increase the luminosity of the proton-lead ion run

The LHC has begun colliding beams of protons with lead ions to probe the early universe from which matter emerged

Last week saw the end of proton-proton physics operation for 2016 following a successful year of running at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV

Another very successful five-day machine development block took place last week

The Large Hadron Collider is now producing more than a billion proton-proton collisions per second

Ready (after a machine development period), steady (running), go (for a special run)!