There were some interests on how the LHC work recently. Here are a some comics that explains it.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1066
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1067
According to the author, it's a series of 5, there will be more coming later in the week.
A bit about PhD Comics:
The strip:
"Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia.
The author:
Jorge Cham got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and was a full-time Instructor and researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2003-2005.