In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

Accelerator team declares "stable beams" as lead ions collide with protons in first LHC physics beams of 2013

Discussions under way for possible re-use of LEIR accelerator

At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community