Beleaguered LHC gears up for restart

Published in Physics World, 1 Sep 2009

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is finally set to restart in mid-November following last year’s accident. Initially it will collide protons at an energy of only 3.5 TeV per beam, and staff at CERN will have to wait until late next year before trying to run the collider at its maximum energy. Collisions of 14TeV (7TeV per beam) will therefore not take place until 2011 at the earliest. […]

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