CERN

...Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists said. In a statement, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said two beams circulating simultaneously led to collisions at all four detection points during the...

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...startup phase, which began Friday night, said Rolf Heuer, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. "It's a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time," said Heuer. "But we need to...

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...outside Chicago, which operates at 1 trillion electron volts, or TeV. Myers said the CERN collider should be ramped up to 1.2 TeV by Christmas. CERN might decide to make the first collisions at the current low energy or at 1.2 TeV, but...

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...physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way," Rolf Heuer, the director general of CERN, said. With great fanfare, CERN circulated its first beams Sept. 10, 2008. But the machine was sidetracked nine days later when a...

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...really very fast," said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known by its French acronym, CERN. Things went so well Friday evening that scientists achieved the operation seven hours earlier than...

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...beam in the opposite direction, which was the initial goal in getting the machine going again and moving it toward collisions of protons, CERN said. The LHC also will be used later for colliding lead ions -- basically the nucleus of the...

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...on Friday. The first beam of sub-atomic particles are expected to be injected into the Large Hadron Collider "early Saturday morning," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP, while adding that the timing was not set in stone. Nestled...

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Scientists at Cern hold their breath as they prepare to fire up the LHC If all goes to plan, beams of particles will begin whizzing around the LHC on Friday evening for the first time since last year's explosion Cern scientists...

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