Seven leaders of the LHC, CMS and ATLAS projects will share a $3m prize for advancing knowledge of the universe

The last couple of weeks have seen a mixed bag of special runs, luminosity production, machine development and down-time

The number of the events the detector can handle per bunch crossing is limited. Even so, LHCb wants to integrate as much luminosity as possible

The past two weeks have seen luminosity production rates vary somewhat but the overall upwards slope has remained steady

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013

The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges

The LHC has been in luminosity production mode for a couple of weeks - the total integrated luminosity for the year has passed 14 inverse femtobarns

Linear accelerator 4 will deliver particles to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster at more than triple the energy the current linac achieves

A 10% decrease in the LHC's peak luminosity can be explained by changing bunch intensities. Jan Uythoven reports

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered over twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in the whole of 2011