The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has provided physicists with a huge quantity of data to analyse since the first physics run in 2009. Now it‘s time for the machine, along with CERN‘s other accelerators, to get a facelift. „Long Shutdown 1“ (LS1) will begin on 14 February 2013, but this doesn’t mean that life at CERN will be any less rich and exciting.