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By Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
Posted on ZDNet News: Nov 24, 2009 6:40:22 AM

The world's largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration.

Progress on the giant experiment has been rapid in the four days since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted, CERN director of communications James Gillies told ZDNet UK on Tuesday.

"These collisions are the first in the LHC at all," said Gillies. "We've been going into new territory. It's been going quite remarkably fast."

Gillies told ZDNet UK that not only had scientists recorded the first collisions of protons on Monday, but that overnight one of the beams had been accelerated.

For more, read "Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates" on ZDNet UK.

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I'm thrilled that they're making progress, and my only regret is that the US is not more involved than it already is.

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its work and we are not dead yet  Quebec-french | 11/24/09
Won't go full power until 2012...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/24/09
Is This A Mayan Calendar Segue?  PieceofPaper51@... | 11/24/09
Give It Time!!  Scubajrr | 11/24/09
Well...  Jkirk3279 | 11/24/09
That's like 3 years...cool.  Socratesfoot | 11/25/09
Relax and enjoy  zdnetregistration | 11/25/09
RE: Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions  igneous neo | 11/24/09
History Repeats Itself ...  PieceofPaper51@... | 11/24/09
RE: Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions  ProfQuill | 11/24/09
RE: Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions  Me_too | 11/26/09
Not me  crazydanr@... | 02/06/10

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