The Large Hadron Collider | CERN
Nov 28, 2010 · The Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with …
The Future Circular Collider | CERN
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is developing designs for higher performance particle colliders that could follow on from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) once it reaches the end of its High …
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
Facts and figures about the LHC Why is it called the “Large Hadron Collider”? "Large" refers to its size, approximately 27km in circumference "Hadron" because it accelerates protons or ions, which belong …
Muon Collider - CERN
A muon collider could be a possible post- High Luminosity LHC machine, to explore high-energy physics frontiers with a relatively small environmental footprint. A circular particle accelerator steers beams of …
Accelerators - CERN
Muon Collider AWAKE Past accelerators Many accelerators developed several decades ago are still in operation. The oldest of these is the Proton Synchrotron (PS), commissioned in 1959. Others have …
First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC - CERN
Jul 1, 2025 · A major event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the accelerator has just collided beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. From 29 June to 9 July, the LHC will switch to a …
ATLAS - CERN
ATLAS is one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It investigates a wide range of physics, from the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up …
Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN
Feb 16, 2015 · Que se passe-t-il au LHC ? Saviez-vous que vous pouvez suivre en direct ce qui se passe dans l'accélérateur le plus puissant du monde ? « LHC Page 1 » donne un aperçu en temps …
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started
Jul 5, 2022 · A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors switched on all subsystems and started recording …
The Higgs boson - CERN
In our current description of Nature, every particle is a wave in a field. The most familiar example of this is light: light is simultaneously a wave in the electromagnetic field and a stream of particles called …