The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the ...

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson, is back in action after over three years in hiatus. CERN shut the accelerator down for maintenance ...

Beam me up The Large Hadron Collider’s “Run 3” will see its experiments collect data from higher energy and more intense collisions. (Courtesy: CERN) The LHC was shut down in 2018 to begin maintenance ...

These two-minute animations break down the accelerator systems at Fermilab and CERN. Curious how scientists can deliver particles to particle physics experiments? Two new animations from Fermilab and ...

After an almost two-year shutdown for repairs and upgrades, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is beginning to fire back up for its next phase of probing the mysteries of physics. Its newest particle ...

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Particle accelerators are an extremely useful tool for scientists wishing to probe the fundamental open questions in physics. The largest and most powerful accelerator in the world—the Large Hadron ...