Accelerator hibernation ends
Achintya RaoToday, 9 March, marks the end of CERN’s annual winter shut down. The Laboratory’s massive accelerator complex will soon begin to lumber out of its winter hibernation and resume accelerating...
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Beams are back in the LHC
Corinne PralavorioView of the LHC in 2018, before the restart of the accelerato. (Image: Maximilien Brice, Julien Ordan/CERN)The Large Hadron Collider is back in business! On Friday 30 March, at 12:17...
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First LHC test collisions of 2018
Ana LopesA test collision recorded by the CMS experiment on 12 April 2018. The CMS collaboration uses these first collisions to prepare for data taking, fine-tuning and powering on various subsystems...
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The 2018 data-taking run at the LHC has begun
Achintya RaoA collision event recorded by LHCb on 28 April, following the formal start of this year’s data taking (Image: LHCb/CERN)On Saturday, 28 April 2018, the operators of the Large Hadron...
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Are you up for the TrackML challenge?
Katarina Anthony10,000 tracks grouping 100,000 points in a future LHC detector as simulated for the TrackML challenge (Image: TrackML Challenge Team/CERN)Physicists from the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb...
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Long live the doubly charmed particle
Corinne PralavorioThe LHCb detector seen in 2018 in its underground cavern. The excellent precision of this detector allowed LHCb physicists to perform detailed measurements on the doubly charmed...
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LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
Sarah CharleyDuring a special one-day run, LHC operators injected lead "atoms" containing a single electron into the machine (Image: Maximilien Brice/Julien Ordan/CERN)Protons might be the Large Hadron...
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Hunting for dark quarks
Ana LopesA proton–proton collision event with two emerging-jet candidates. (Image: CMS/CERN)Quarks are the smallest particles that we know of. In fact, according to the Standard Model of particle...
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The Large Hadron Collider: 10 years and counting
Matthew ChalmersImage of a LHC beam screen recorded on 10 September 2008, showing two spots corresponding to the successful circulation of protons once around the machine (Image: CERN)Ten years ago, on...
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The LHC prepares for the future
Corinne PralavorioView of the CERN Control Centre where the operators control the LHC (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)The Large Hadron Collider is stopping proton collisions for five days this week to...
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