Beams were circulating in the LHC by 30 March (five days in advance!), and everything is looking good for a strong final year of LHC Run II.

The LHC’s 2017 proton run has ended with record luminosity. The special runs will now take place before the winter shutdown.

The Large Hadron Collider has established a new record of luminosity, delivering a huge amount of data to its experiments

The LHC has been accelerating more and more protons, and to allow the machine to reach its maximum intensity, it will undergo a thorough scrubbing.

Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017

For the first time this year, the LHC is circulating beams of protons, following a 17-week-long extended technical stop

We meet Rende Steerenberg, who is the group leader for the accelerator and technical teams

As 2017 begins, CERN looks forward to a year full of promise

Particles have circulated in the LHC one last time in 2016 before the winter stop of the accelerators for maintenance

The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones

The target for the LHC integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40.

After two months at full throttle, the LHC is taking a short break to allow various studies of its operation