The Large Hadron Collider | CERN
WEBSep 10, 2008 · 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 to CERN’s accelerator complex.The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles …
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WEBCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
Our History | CERN
WEBAt an intergovernmental meeting of UNESCO in Paris in December 1951, the first resolution concerning the establishment of a European Council for Nuclear Research (in French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) was adopted. Two months later, an agreement was signed establishing the provisional Council – the acronym CERN was born.
Launch of the new CERN Learning Hub | CERN
WEBCERN provides a wide range of learning and development opportunities for personnel. These cover everything from the everyday essentials of safety and computer security, through leadership and communication training to the most arcane technical skills required in a laboratory as large and complex as CERN. The new Learning Hub provides a new …
News | CERN
WEB6 days ago · CERN's edge AI data analysis techniques used to detect marine plastic pollution. CERN’s expertise in data management is leveraged to combat marine plastic litter through the new EU project, Edge SpAIce. News. Knowledge sharing. 22 April, 2024.
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started
WEBJul 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 high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, ushering in a new physics season. This feat was made possible thanks to the operators …
Our People | CERN
WEBCooperation between nations, universities and scientists is the driving force behind CERN’s research. As of 2017, more than 17 500 people from around the world work together to push the limits of knowledge. CERN’s staff members, numbering around 2500, take part in the design, construction and operation of the research infrastructure.
Large Hadron Collider restarts | CERN
WEBApr 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 CEST, two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider’s 27-kilometre ring at their injection energy of 450 billion …
The Standard Model | CERN
WEBThe Standard Model. The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists since the 1930s have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything in the universe is found to be made from a few ...
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WEBWhat 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 to CERN’s accelerator complex.The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles …
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