Celebrate the start of the 2012 LHC run with LHC experiments! Update: New record collision underway...

Participate in a special Hangout On Air from the +CMS Experiment, +ATLAS Experiment and +CERN control rooms, as we celebrate the re-start of the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, when the machine will operate at higher energies than ever before! Join us at the start of the year of discovery, and see where some of the world’s highest-energy particle physics experiments take place and ask questions to the scientists who conduct them.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, spanning the border between Switzerland and France. The LHC accelerates protons to nearly the speed of light and then smashes them together inside detectors like CMS some 40 million times a second to produce fantastic particles, many of which haven’t been around since the Big Bang.

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