The Large Hadron Collider | CERN
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 …
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
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, …
Accelerators - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider is supplied with protons by a chain of four accelerators that boost the particles and divide them into bunches. The accelerators are controlled by operators 24 hours …
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 …
First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC - CERN
Jul 1, 2025 · A major event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the accelerator has just collided beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. From 29 June to 9 July, the LHC will …
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 …
How an accelerator works - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerates and collides protons, and also heavy lead ions. One might expect the LHC to require a large source of particles, but protons for beams in 27 …
A vacuum as empty as interstellar space - CERN
A vacuum as empty as interstellar space With the first start-up of beams in 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) became the biggest operational vacuum system in the world With the …
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 …
Le Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN
Le LHC, l’accélérateur de particules le plus grand et le plus puissant du monde, est le dernier maillon du complexe d’accélérateurs du CERN. Il consiste en un anneau de 27 kilomètres de …