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Now. The LHC is the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Early this morning, the machine built at CERN, outside Geneva, two beams of protons released by his pipes to 1.18 TeV (the equivalent of a car at 700 kilometers per hour).

The previous record was held by the Tevatron, the large particle accelerator U.S. since 2001. The LHC, however, still must beat his own mark several times before beginning to do physics in the early months of next year when the protons move and to 3.5 TeV.

"We're still quite believe how well it is doing the set up of the LHC," said the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer. "It's fantastic, but we want to go step by step, and there is still much to do before we start doing physics in 2010. I keep my champagne on ice until then, "he added. The first record was broken last night at 21:38, when the first beam amounted to 1.5 TeV. Three hours later it was 1.18.

Until now, the whole set-up was carried out with a beam of low intensity. To achieve the level of collisions of protons necessary for doing science requires a higher intensity. The tests done now aim at ensuring that the machine can maintain that intensity in a safe manner.

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This phase will last one week. Then, the LHC will start colliding particles to calibrate the accelerator and experiments until year end. If all goes well, the physics will begin to arrive during the first quarter of 2010. Then, the accelerator will be the half of its maximum power.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now officially the most powerful particle accelerator in the world after its two beams of protons have reached an energy of 1.18 teraelectronvoltios (TeV). This was announced in Geneva the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in a statement.

This figure reached by the so-called 'Big Bang Machine' exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, achieved by its main competitor, the Tevatron collider, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago. According to the research center said "this event is an important milestone on the road to LHC physics program in 2010, the year in which the LHC is expected to reach 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam).

After the failure that forced stop its operation soon after its inauguration in September 2008 and the subsequent problems forced to postpone its relaunch, the LHC seems to have overcome all its problems and is working to perfection.

"We adapt to how easy it is under the management of the LHC," said the director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, who, however, has been cautious in stating that "we follow step by step, there is still much to do before you start physics in 2010. "

Seven days ago, when he recorded the first collisions of protons at low speed, the objective of scientists was to put proton beams at 1.2 TeV in the following weeks. Moreover, the record has been achieved only ten days after the throttle return to work after 14 months of repairs and testing to resolve the damage he suffered in September 2008 within days of opening.

Progress on the timetable "demonstrates the excellent performance of the machine," said CERN. Thus, the past 20 days were injected into the accelerator's first beams of protons and within days they alternately circulated at low speed, first in one direction and then the other, along a circumference of 27 kilometers a sort of tunnel built 100 meters underground on the border between Switzerland and France.

From that stage, "the life of the beams was increased to about 10 hours," the body. According to officials of the scientific institution, the progression in the LHC experiments suggest that will achieve the objective of carrying out the first physics program in the first quarter of 2010.

The next goal, now and before Christmas, is to increase the intensity of the beams before removing larger amounts of data collisions. This should ensure that a higher speed of the beams can be handled safely and that it is possible to ensure stable conditions for the experiments during the collisions, which is expected to take about a week. From then until the end of the year there will be more collisions to adjust the machine.

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The LHC or Large Hadron Collider at CERN has now become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world this morning after its two beams of protons have reached an energy of 1.18 teraelectronvoltios (TeV). Until now the record is held by the Tevatron collider, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the USA, which in 2001 got the 0.98 TeV.

Today the LHC has marked another milestone on its way to the first discoveries in Physics expected in 2010. This morning the heads of the giant machine are able to accelerate two beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV, exceeding the previous world record of 0.98 set by the TeV Tevatron collider at Fermilab (USA), as confirmed CERN in a statement.

"At the moment we settle for the launch of the LHC goes smoothly," says the Director General of CERN Rolf Heuer. "It's fantastic, but we are working step by step because there is still much to do before next year start arriving early physical findings. Keep the champagne on ice until then. "

The new developments come just 10 days after the LHC start up again, which shows the "excellent performance" of the machine. On November 20 the first beams were injected in the Large Hadron Collider and the days after the machine operators revived the movement of the beams inside the ring. The operation was conducted alternately in one direction and then the other, an injection energy of 450 GeV and increasing the length of the beam gradually to approximately 10 hours. Circulated on 23 November for the first time two beams together and the four major LHC detectors recorded the first evidence of a collision.

The achievement of last night again confirms that the LHC progresses smoothly to the first physical findings in early 2010. The energy world record was reached yesterday when the beam 1 is accelerated from 450 GeV to 1050 GeV (1.05 TeV) at 21:28 pm on Sunday 29 November. Three hours later the two beams of the LHC successfully accelerated to 1.18 TeV, at 00:44 pm today.

'I was here 20 years ago when we lit the previous largest particle accelerator at CERN, the LEP, "the Director of Research and Technology Steve Myers, who adds:" I thought it was a fantastic machine to handle, but this is something else. What took us days or weeks with the LEP, we are doing in hours with the LHC. So far so promises to be a great research program. "

The next scheduled action is a phase "concentrated" which will increase the beam intensity before Christmas and after the delivery of large amounts of data from collision experiments. So far, all the work of the LHC start-up has been carried out with a pilot beam of low intensity, but you need a higher intensity levels to provide proton-proton collision significant.

The objective of this stage is to ensure that these higher intensities can be operated safely, and ensure stable conditions for the experiments conducted during collisions. It is estimated that this phase will last about a week, after which, until the end of the year, will collide beams at the LHC for calibrations. The first discoveries in physics in the large collider are scheduled for the first quarter of 2010, a collision energy of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam).

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