Yesterday night, the LHC saw its first ever circulating beam at an energy of 6.5 TeV. It’s been only one of the two beams, but it shows we are getting close to collisions :) It’s going to be fantastic, though there is still a lot to do not just in terms of LHC preparations, but also on the detector and the analysis side.
Find out more about yesterday’s tests here and about the missing steps here.