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
How was the LHC designed? Scientists started thinking about the LHC in the early 1980s, when the previous accelerator, the LEP, was not yet running. In December 1994, CERN Council …
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 …
Accelerators - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful collider in the world. It boosts the particles in a loop 27 kilometres in circumference at an energy of 6.5 TeV (teraelectronvolts), …
And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
May 5, 2025 · Here we would like to take you on a tour of the LHC's four main experiments - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - which recorded an unprecedented amount of data in 2024, …
About CERN
What is the LHC? The 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 …
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC - CERN
May 8, 2025 · In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron …
Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins - CERN
Nov 6, 2024 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest recipes in the Universe, like the quark–gluon …
A bestiary of exotic hadrons - CERN
Feb 20, 2025 · A simplified visualisation of the 23 exotic hadrons discovered so far at the LHC. Each particle contains at least one charm quark and a mixture of up, down and strange …
CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular ...
Mar 31, 2025 · The FCC is a proposed particle collider with a circumference of about 91 km that could succeed CERN’s current flagship instrument – the 27-km Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – …