Newswire: 14 February 2013 - CERN - First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion

Geneva, 14 February 2013 - At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN[1] Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, bringing the machine's first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. The LHC's first run has seen major advances in physics, including the discovery of a new particle that looks increasingly like the long-sought Higgs boson, announced on 4 July 2012. And during the last weeks of the run, the remarkable figure of 100 petabytes of data stored in the C...