Work is progressing well on the new access and safety system being deployed across the accelerator chain

The preparatory phase in the LHC which includes electrical and leak test is now completed

Watch a quadrupole magnet being lowered into the ALICE cavern for transportation to its required spot on the LHC

The SMACC interconnection train continues to progress in Sector 5-6 of the LHC

The first Personnel Access Door of the new PS Complex access system is now operational at the PS Booster

The warm-up of the first LHC sector (5-6) is now complete; it is at room temperature for the first time in over three years

Testing of the LHC's main magnet circuits - dipole and quadrupole - has been completed

The upgrade and maintenance of the LHC (LS1 - first long shutdown) started with the tests of most of the electromagnetic circuits

At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown (LS1) is about to start

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start