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Large Hadron Collider to run until 2012
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T.K. RandallFebruary 2, 2011 ·
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Plans for an extended shutdown for the LHC have been postponed until the end of 2012.
The machine had been due to be shut down at the end of 2011 so that it could be prepared to produce seven teraelectronvolts beams. US particle collider "the Tevatron" has not been renwed at all due to budget issues and if it shuts down the LHC will be the only machine in the world capable of finding the elusive Higgs boson particle.
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.
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