First three-year Large Hadron Collider running period reaches successful conclusion

On Feb. 14, 2013, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, bringing the machine's first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. The LHC's first run has seen major advances in physics, including the discovery of a new particle that looks increasingly like the long-sought Higgs boson, announced on July 4, 2012. And during the last weeks of the run, the remarkable figure of 100 petabytes of data stored in the CERN mass-storage syste...

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