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

Good performance followed recovery from extended luminosity calibration runs

Discussions under way for possible re-use of LEIR accelerator

A mixed bag of operations and the development of special optics mean the LHC is on track for as much luminosity as possible before the long shutdown

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

At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community

The LHC has delivered more collisions so far this year than in the whole of 2011 - so many it's overheating the magnets

CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia

Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year