Relaunch of Large Hadron Collider ‘enormous success’

THE world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), began firing beams of protons in opposite directions yesterday, with scientists describing initial progress as an “enormous success”.

The relaunch of the €3.9 billion collider, which was out of action for 14 months, had been a success, experts at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.

“The first three days have been in my opinion an enormous success, we’ve shown that the LHC machine is in superb condition from the beam quality viewpoint,” said Steve Myers, CERN accelerators and technology director.