The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator situated at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). It is not an experiment, more of a laboratory - many different experiments will be performed with it. Stories will be tagged as 'large hadron collider'.

Update 1450pm (BST) The party started, champaign for Big Bang machine managers ; beams fired both ways

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Update 1700pm (BST) Collisions in 1 week; Party started, champaign for Big Bang Mgrs ; beams fired both ways

VIDEOS LAST VIDEO ¤ LIVEVIDEO beam detected ¤ LHC-explainer ! comment: beams are fired two ways, next action beams collide in chamber! LAST UPDATE 1700pm (BST) FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in...