{"id":226898,"date":"2025-12-11T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lhc-delivers-a-record-number-of-particle-collisions-in-2025"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:23:00","slug":"lhc-delivers-a-record-number-of-particle-collisions-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lhc-delivers-a-record-number-of-particle-collisions-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"LHC delivers a record number of particle collisions in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lhc-delivers-a-record-number-of-particle-collisions-in-20252.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All experiments broke records in the final full operating year of the third run of the LHC.<\/p>\n<p>After a few final laps around the ring, the beams of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were paused at 6.00 a.m. on Monday, 8 December for the usual year-end technical stop. Launched on 5 May, the LHC\u2019s 11th year-long run of high-energy physics broke a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-09-lhc-luminosity.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">record for integrated luminosity<\/a> by delivering 125 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> to both the ATLAS and the CMS experiments. Over the full lifetime of the LHC, ATLAS and CMS have now each delivered an integrated luminosity of 500 fb<sup>-1<\/sup>, equating to approximately 50 million billion particle collisions.<\/p>\n<p>All four LHC experiments performed extremely well throughout the 2025 proton run, detecting more collisions than in any previous year and reporting data-taking efficiencies of more than 90%. LHCb continued to benefit from the significant upgrades that were completed in 2023, further increasing its recorded luminosity to a new record of 11.8 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All experiments broke records in the final full operating year of the third run of the LHC. After a few final laps around the ring, the beams of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were paused at 6.00 a.m. on Monday, 8 December for the usual year-end technical stop. Launched on 5 May, the LHC\u2019s 11th [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}