Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator

Repairs being made in March 2009 to the damaged section of the LHC. (Credit: Courtesy of CERN)

From Science Daily:

Science Daily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.

After more than one year of repairs, the LHC is now back on track to create high-energy particle collisions that may yield extraordinary insights into the nature of the physical universe.

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