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The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data
The upgrade and maintenance of the LHC (LS1 - first long shutdown) started with the tests of most of the electromagnetic circuits
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
The proton-lead run was an unqualified success and a testament to painstaking preparation by the ion team
On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period
At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run
As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown (LS1) is about to start
As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start
Every two weeks, ion-source physicist Detlef Küchler refills the lead source for the LHC with pure lead 208
Proton-ion operation has become routine for the LHC operation crew with all seven LHC experiments simultaneously taking data for first time
The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma
The LHC starts the New Year facing a new challenge: proton-lead collisions in the last month before the shutdown in mid-February