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

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

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered over twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in the whole of 2011

LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update

CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia

Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year

The LHC is so large that operators have to correct for a surprising source of error - the moon's gravitational pull