With the cooling of the last two sectors on 21 August, the LHC has achieved its nominal temperature of 1.9 K. This technical feat, in which a single sector of the LHC alone can lay claim to being the biggest superconducting facility in the world, is the result of a year and a half of continued effort.

But the adventure does not stop there, on the contrary, it is only beginning… The cooling of all the sectors to the operating temperature signifies that, once the last operation checks are concluded, the LHC will be ready to welcome its first beam. The countdown continues…

The cooling status of the eight sectors can be found at:
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

With the cooling of the last two sectors on 21 August, the LHC has achieved its nominal temperature of 1.9 K. This technical feat, in which a single sector of the LHC alone can lay claim to being the biggest superconducting facility in the world, is the result of a year and a half of continued effort.

But the adventure does not stop there, on the contrary, it is only beginning… The cooling of all the sectors to the operating temperature signifies that, once the last operation checks are concluded, the LHC will be ready to welcome its first beam. The countdown continues…

The cooling status of the eight sectors can be found at:
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/