Cern lab set for beam milestone
Engineers had previously brought a beam of protons - tiny, sub-atomic particles - to the “doorstep” of the LHC.
On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time.
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions present in the Universe just after the Big Bang.
There are over 5,000 magnets arranged end-to-end in a ring that runs for 27km through a giant tunnel under the French Swiss border.
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