The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
WEBThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the ...
Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024 - CERN
WEBApr 5, 2024 · By Naomi Dinmore. LHC Page 1 showing the first stable beams of 2024 (Image: CERN) 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 of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The third year of LHC Run 3 promises ...
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
WEBThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The accelerator sits in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started
WEBJul 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 high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, ushering in a new physics season. This feat was made possible thanks to the operators who had worked around the clock since the restart of the LHC in ...
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider - CERN
WEBThe HL-LHC. A model of an HL-LHC magnet (Image: Miguel Mendes/CERN) The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC, to increase the potential for physics discoveries after 2029. The objective is to increase the integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value.
The accelerator complex - CERN
WEBThe accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies. Each machine boosts the energy of a beam of particles before injecting it into the next machine in the sequence. In the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the last element in this chain – particle beams are accelerated up to the ...
The Future Circular Collider - CERN
WEBThe 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-Luminosity phase). The ongoing FCC Feasibility Study, expected to conclude in 2025, is investigating the technical and financial viability of the ...
Large Hadron Collider restarts - CERN
WEBApr 22, 2022 · The LHC tunnel at point 1 (Image: CERN) The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, at 12:16 CEST, two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider ’s …
Recreating Big Bang matter on Earth - CERN
WEBNov 13, 2020 · Recreating Big Bang matter on Earth. First collisions of Pb+Pb seen by the ALICE experiment on 09.11.2010. (Image: CERN) 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. But the world’s biggest accelerator was …
The Safety of the LHC - CERN
WEBThe Safety of the LHC. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can achieve an energy that no other particle accelerators have reached before, but Nature routinely produces higher energies in cosmic-ray collisions. Concerns about the safety of whatever may be created in such high-energy particle collisions have been addressed for many years.