CERN: Incidents at LHC, re-start scheduled for 2009

PRESS RELEASE 10.08
23.09.2008
LHC re-start scheduled for 2009

PRESS RELEASE 10.08
23.09.2008
LHC re-start scheduled for 2009

The smaller accelerators are located on the main Meyrin site (also known as the West Area), which was originally built in Switzerland alongside the French border, but has been extended to span the border since 1965. The French side is under Swiss jurisdiction and so there is no obvious border within the site, apart from a line of marker stones. There are six entrances to the Meyrin site:

CERN operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator. Currently active machines are:
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