The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost …
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
Why is it called the “Large Hadron Collider”? "Large" refers to its size, approximately 27km in circumference "Hadron" because it accelerates protons or ions, which belong to the group of …
CERN70: Switching on the Large Hadron Collider | CERN
Part 18 of the CERN70 feature series. Find out more: cern70.cern Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider
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 of the …
And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
May 5, 2025 · (Image: CERN) Today at 13h51, the engineer in charge of the LHC at the CERN Control Centre announced that stable beams had returned to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking the …
Large Hadron Collider restarts - CERN
Apr 22, 2022 · 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 …
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started
Jul 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 …
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 Collider …
Looking back on 50 years of hadron colliders - CERN
Jan 26, 2021 · Looking back on 50 years of hadron colliders This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built
New schedule for CERN's accelerators
Oct 8, 2024 · CERN has revised its schedule for its accelerator complex. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently in its third period of physics data taking (Run 3), and this will now be extended until …