Updates: June 2012
Collaboration to build new antiproton decelerator
— The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) will further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator, to make them easier to trap
LHC experiments prepare for summer conferences
— CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia
LHC delivers more collisions than in the whole of 2011
— Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year
Full moon pulls LHC from its protons
— The LHC is so large that operators have to correct for a surprising source of error - the moon's gravitational pull
