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The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones
The LHC has begun colliding beams of protons with lead ions to probe the early universe from which matter emerged
The target for the LHC integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40.
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
Read the latest issue of Accelerating News for ongoing R&D activities for the High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC and future accelerator projects
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)!
Last week, the accumulated integrated luminosity reached the target value for 2016 of 25 fb-1 in both ATLAS and CMS
This week CERN is hosting the CERN-BINP workshop for young scientists in e+e- colliders
The LHC performance continued to surpass expectations when this week it achieved 2220 proton bunches
The LHC has been in great shape over the last few months, delivering over 20 fb-1 of integrated luminosity before the ICHEP conference
