The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider

The proton-lead run was an unqualified success and a testament to painstaking preparation by the ion team

On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period

At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown (LS1) is about to start

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start

Every two weeks, ion-source physicist Detlef Küchler refills the lead source for the LHC with pure lead 208

Proton-ion operation has become routine for the LHC operation crew with all seven LHC experiments simultaneously taking data for first time

The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma

The LHC starts the New Year facing a new challenge: proton-lead collisions in the last month before the shutdown in mid-February