Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has begun its shutdown, or disconnection, marking the start of a planned pause in operations of the world's largest particle accelerator. The process involves powering down and decommissioning key systems. The shutdown is expected to allow upgrades that will boost the collider's luminosity for future physics runs, though no detailed timeline was given.

The National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Poland is leading a study of neutrino scattering at the Large Hadron Collider. The work examines how neutrinos, particles that rarely interact with matter, behave during high-energy collisions, a field that has drawn growing interest since collider experiments began detecting neutrino interactions directly. Physicists see the research as a step toward understanding these elusive particles in an energy range never before accessible.