First collisions at Large Hadron Collider

Posted on Tuesday, November 24 2009 @ 16:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been restarted and low-energy collisions were tested in the machine for the very first time.
Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the very first time.

The step was described as a "great achievement" for those working on the huge physics experiment.

The low-energy collisions came after researchers circulated two beams simultaneously in the LHC's 27km-long tunnel earlier on Monday.
More details at BBC News.


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