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Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions
The world's largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration.
The world's largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration.
Progress on the giant experiment has been rapid in the four days since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted, CERN director of communications James Gillies told ZDNet UK on Tuesday.
"These collisions are the first in the LHC at all," said Gillies. "We've been going into new territory. It's been going quite remarkably fast."
Gillies told ZDNet UK that not only had scientists recorded the first collisions of protons on Monday, but that overnight one of the beams had been accelerated.
For more, read "Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates" on ZDNet UK.