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12.35pm

Live blog 3 June 2015: That's it for today! This live blog is now closed. Check out this gallery of photo highlights from this morning. And keep up to date with all the news from CERN at the new energy frontier of 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) on our website, home.web.cern.ch.

12.11pm

Champagne corks popping in the CERN Control Centre as the Operations team celebrate the milestone: Stable beams in the LHC and the start of data taking at 13 teraelectronvolts!

12.09pm

Our friends over at Fermilab in the US sent this message of congratulations to CERN from the remote operations centre for CMS:

(Video: Fermilab)

12.08pm

Our live webcast is now wrapping up. Thanks for watching!

12.07pm

Collisions at 13 TeV send particle tracks through the LHCb detector (Image: LHCb)

11.58am

Check out the video below for more highlights from this morning:

CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer addresses the LHC operations team from the CERN Control Centre after the announcement of stable beams (Video: CERN)

11.47am

Protons collide in the ALICE detector at the record-breaking energy of 13 teraelectronvolts (Image: ALICE)

11.40am

Physicists monitor the ALICE detector from that experiment's control room (Image: Laurent Egli)

11.32am

Joining Paola Catapano of the CERN communications department, and Steve Goldfarb of the ATLAS experiment now on the live webcast are (from right, around the table):

Massimo Giovannini, CERN theorist

Jan Uythoven, Accelerator engineer

Frédérick Bordry, CERN Director for accelerators and technology

Giulia Papotti, LHC operator

11.29am

Check out this animated event display from the CMS experiment.

11.24am

Protons collide at 13 teraelectronvolts inside the ATLAS detector (Image: ATLAS)

11.20am

In the CERN Control Centre, the LHC operations team as well as members of CERN management applaud the announcement of stable beams (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)

11.15am

Collisions as seen within the LHCb experiment's detector (Image: LHCb/CERN)

11.11am

CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer (centre) points to an event display showing collisions in the CMS experiment (Image: M. Brice/CERN)

11.09am

Protons collide at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV), sending showers of particles through the ATLAS detector (Image: ATLAS)

11.07am

An event display from this morning's collisions from the CMS experiment.

Find out more about the CMS experiments at CERN

11.05am

"This is the start of a new adventure! We have beam back! This is a great achievement and a great start!" says CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology Frédérick Bordry.