On 23rd November the LHC collided 450 GeV beams of protons for the first time (see here) but only for a short period as a trial. The first real period of collisions started on 6th December. The aim for the coming days is to accumulate about 100000 900 GeV proton-proton collisions.

You can keep up with the excitement of the this period in three ways:

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