Nov 28, 2010 · The Large Hadron Collider 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 …

The 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 …

The Large Electron-Positron Collider LEP – the largest electron-positron accelerator ever built – was dismantled in 2000. Its 27-kilometre tunnel now hosts the LHC With its 27-kilometre circumference, …

Facts and figures about the LHC 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 …

A muon collider could be a possible post- High Luminosity LHC machine, to explore high-energy physics frontiers with a relatively small environmental footprint. A circular particle accelerator steers beams of …

Muon Collider AWAKE Past accelerators Many accelerators developed several decades ago are still in operation. The oldest of these is the Proton Synchrotron (PS), commissioned in 1959. Others have …

Overview of the High Luminosity LHC project. (Video: CERN) The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC in order to increase the …

In our current description of Nature, every particle is a wave in a field. The most familiar example of this is light: light is simultaneously a wave in the electromagnetic field and a stream of particles called …

Jan 26, 2021 · A section of the Intersecting Storage Rings, the world's first hadron collider. (Image: CERN) On 27 January 1971, the first proton collisions inside the Intersecting Storage Rings at CERN …

Oct 4, 2024 · In the September CERN Council Session, we presented a revised schedule for Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its injector complex. This new schedule …