The Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world,
has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of
the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume
early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the machine
for running at almost double the energy of run 1. The last LHC magnet
interconnection was closed on 18 June 2014 and one sector of 1/8 of the
machine has already been cooled to operating temperature. The accelerator chain that supplies the LHC’s particle beams is currently starting up, with beam in the Proton Synchrotron accelerator last Wednesday for the first time since 2012.
CERN announces LHC restart schedule
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