PRESS RELEASE
First beam in the LHC - accelerating science
Geneva, 10 September 2008

CERN logoThe first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.

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