'Big Bang' experiment to re-start The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be re-started in the early hours of Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said.
During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008. Friday afternoon a first beam of ions entered the LHC clockwise beam pipe through the TI2 transfer line. Source
More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the worlds biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang. Read more
LHC to run at 3.5 TeV for early part of 2009-2010 run rising later Geneva, 6 August 2009. CERN's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections were completed last week, indicating that no further repairs are necessary for safe running.