LHC’s biggest collisions on hold until after 2010

Published in Physics World, 10 Feb 2009

Maximum-energy collisions will take place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only after 2010.

Following the recommendations of LHC staff given at a workshop last week in Chamonix, France, CERN management has decided upon a restart schedule that will see the accelerator collide protons at record energies of 10 TeV towards the end of this year. However, collisions at the maximum collision energy of 14 TeV will have to wait until at least 2011.

CERN says that it has made the decision to ensure that there is enough data produced next year for theorists to search for new physics. […]

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