CERN LHC Update: Large Hadron Collider Wraps Up 2016 Run After Smashing Through Collision Targets

It’s a wrap for the Large Hadron Collider’s latest run. On Monday, the LHC — the world’s largest particle accelerator, housed underground near the France-Switzerland border near Geneva — circulated lead ions and protons for the last time this year.

In its 2016 run, which began in May, the LHC surpassed its targets by a wide margin. The number of collisions recorded by the ATLAS and CMS detectors — two of LHC’s four largest detectors — during the proton run from April to the end of October was 60 percent higher than expected.