First particle-beams of 2016 in Cern's Large Hadron Collider
27 March, 2016
The LHC has begun circulating proton beams again, after a 13-week maintenance break. What are the next steps?
It was definitely a “maintenance break”, not a holiday. Those accelerator people don’t care about holidays, as indicated by that fact that, like last year, they are working over Easter. Proton beams were injected into the ring and circulated today, an important step on the way to more physics in 2016.
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