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 ...
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
WEBFacts and figures about the LHC. Two LHC magnets are seen before they are connected together. The blue cylinders contain the magnetic yoke and coil of the dipole magnets together with the liquid helium system required to cool the magnet so that it becomes superconducting. Eventually this connection will be welded …
LHC the guide FAQ - CERN
WEBJul 3, 2018 · How many kilometres of cables are there in the LHC magnets? How low is the pressure in the beam pipe? Discover facts and figures about the Large Hadron Collider in this handy LHC guide: CERN-Brochure-2021-004-Eng.pdf.
Virtual tour of the LHC - CERN
WEBApr 20, 2022 · LHC tunnel stock footage Video Accelerators 20 April, 2022. LHC images gallery Image ...
LHC - CERN
WEBSep 20, 2024 · LHC. Seven experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) use detectors to analyse the myriad of particles produced by collisions in the accelerator. These experiments are run by collaborations of scientists from institutes all over the world. Each experiment is distinct and characterised by its detectors.
Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024
WEBOn 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 six months of 13.6 TeV proton collisions at an even higher luminosity than before ...
High-Luminosity LHC - CERN
WEBThe High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC in order to increase the potential for discoveries after 2029. The objective is to increase the integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value. Luminosity is an important indicator of the performance of an accelerator ...
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.
Accelerators - CERN
WEBAs they race around the LHC, the protons acquire an energy of 6.5 million million electronvolts, known as 6.5 tera-electronvolts or TeV. It is the highest energy reached by an accelerator, but in everyday terms, this is a ridiculously tiny energy; roughly the energy of a safety pin dropped from a height of just two centimetres.
LHC upgrades during LS2 - CERN
WEBThe LHC. A chain of LHC dipole magnets inside the tunnel at point 1 (ATLAS) towards the end of Long Shutdown 2 (LS2). (Image: CERN) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, its first run was from 2010 to 2013, its second run was from 2015 to 2018 ...