Monday, 13 April 2015

Large Hadron Collider restarts after 2 years of maintenance

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After being shut down for two years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online, CERN announced Sunday.

"Today at 10:41am [local time], a proton beam was back in the 27-kilometer ring, followed at 12:27pm by a second beam rotating in the opposite direction," the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported in a statement.

"These beams circulated at their injection energy of 450 GeV. Over the coming days, operators will check all systems before increasing energy of the beams."

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