!! LHC is back in business !!
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been restarted after
a hiatus of 14 months.
a hiatus of 14 months.
Engineers working on the machine achieved a stable, circulating proton
beam just after 2100 GMT on Friday, 20 November 2009.
beam just after 2100 GMT on Friday, 20 November 2009.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel about 100m beneath the French-Swiss border.
The experiment is designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.