
The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
Nov 28, 2010 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator that pushes protons or ions to near the speed of light. It first started up on 10 …
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
Exploitation costs of the LHC when running (direct and indirect costs) represent about 80% of the CERN annual budget for operation, maintenance, technical stops, repairs and consolidation …
Accelerators - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider is supplied with protons by a chain of four accelerators that boost the particles and divide them into bunches. The accelerators are controlled by operators 24 hours …
Recreating Big Bang matter on Earth - CERN
Nov 13, 2020 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN usually collides protons together. It is these proton–proton collisions that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024
On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the official start …
And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
May 5, 2025 · So the LHC machine is officially back in business once again. The energy ramp-up has begun, the beam energies will soon reach their nominal value of 6.8 TeV, and the LHC …
The Compact Linear Collider - CERN
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed accelerator that is being designed as an addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. Its objective is to collide electrons and positrons …
First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC - CERN
Jul 1, 2025 · The Large Hadron Collider gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on …
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 …
Speeding up machine learning for particle physics - CERN
Jun 21, 2021 · Now a team including researchers from CERN and Google has come up with a new method to speed up deep neural networks – a form of machine-learning algorithms – for …