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 …

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 …

The Large Electron-Positron Collider LEP – the largest electron-positron accelerator ever built – was dismantled in 2000. Its 27-kilometre tunnel now hosts the LHC With its 27-kilometre …

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, …

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 …

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. …

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including …

Oct 4, 2024 · In the September CERN Council Session, we presented a revised schedule for Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its injector complex. This new …

Mar 31, 2025 · After several years of intense work, CERN and international partners have completed a study to assess the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC). …

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 …