Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to run into 2012 (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to continue operating in 2012 after officials dropped plans for an extended shut down at the end of this year.

The decision by managers at Cern - the organisation that runs the LHC - was announced in an advisory report.

The machine's advisory committee says the LHC's experiments stand a good chance of finding new physics in the next two years.
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The LHC was previously scheduled to run until the end of 2011 before going into a long technical stop necessary to prepare it for running the machine at its full design energy of seven teraelectronvolts (TeV) per beam.

However, the LHC is now expected to run at its current energy of 3.5 TeV per beam until the end of 2012.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12335587

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[somone]

1. Just in time for the end of the world

[villager]

2. Hmmm... until *December* 2012!?

;-)