Remarkable first three-year run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator crowned by a new performance milestone

Highlights included sensitive searches for new physics, the decay of a Bs meson, quark-gluon plasma and insights on the structure of the proton

Today in the CERN auditorium teams from the LHC and its experiments will present the current status of the accelerator and detectors

The LHC experiments will each give a brief presentation in the CERN auditorium today. Watch the webcast

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

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 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

LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update