CERN: “First successful beam at record energy of 6.5 TeV” by Cian O’Luanaigh Last night the Operations team for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully circulated a beam at 6.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV) – one of many steps before the accelerator will deliver collisions at four interaction points within the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS andLHCb detectors