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  1. 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 …

  2. 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, …

  3. The Future Circular Collider | CERN

    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 …

  4. Accelerators - CERN

    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. …

  5. The Large Electron-Positron Collider - CERN

    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 …

  6. CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular ...

    Mar 31, 2025 · After several years of intense work, CERN and international partners have completed a study to assess the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC). …

  7. 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 …

  8. Muon Collider - CERN

    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 …

  9. Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN

    Feb 16, 2015 · Que se passe-t-il au LHC ? Saviez-vous que vous pouvez suivre en direct ce qui se passe dans l'accélérateur le plus puissant du monde ? « LHC Page 1 » donne un aperçu …

  10. The Higgs boson - CERN

    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 …