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
WEBCERN is a member of each experiment and contributes to the maintenance and operation budget of the LHC experiments. Costs for Run 1 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 work in personnel and ...
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 ...
CMS - CERN
WEBThe 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 the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment ...
ALICE - CERN
WEBALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector dedicated to heavy-ion physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where a phase of matter called quark-gluon plasma forms. All ordinary matter in today’s universe is made up of atoms.
LHC images gallery - CERN
WEBLHC tunnel Pictures during LS2 (Image: CERN) Download image Small Medium Large Original A chain of LHC dipole magnets inside the tunnel at point 1 (ATLAS) towards the end of Long Shutdown 2 (LS2).When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins Run 3 next year, operators aim to increase the energy of the …
Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024 - CERN
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, meaning more collisions for the experiments to ...
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.
Experiments - CERN
WEBCERN’s experimental programme has consisted of hundreds of experiments spanning decades. Among these were pioneering experiments for electroweak physics, a branch of physics that unifies the electromagnetic and weak fundamental forces. In 1958, an experiment at the Synchrocyclotron discovered a rare …
News - CERN
WEB4 days ago · A Nobel ninetieth. Find out how CERN is celebrating the 90th birthday of former Director-General and Nobel Prize laureate Carlo Rubbia, and how you can be involved. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its …