Hadron Collider Restarts Briefly

After 14 months of repairs, proton beams circulate
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 20, 2009 6:06 PM CST
Hadron Collider Restarts Briefly
UPDATES intro to reflect plan to restart CERN's Large Hadron Collider; graphic explains how the Large Hadron Collider works

The Large Hadron Collider roared to life today for the first time since September 2008. "The first tests of injecting subatomic particles" took just a fraction of a second, a CERN rep said, but the circulation of the proton beams confirmed that the repairs instituted 9 days after the collider opened were successful. "If all goes well tonight we will try to circulate a beam of particles for several minutes" early tomorrow morning, the rep said.
(More CERN stories.)

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