The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
Sep 10, 2008 · The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. (Image: Anna Pantelia/CERN) Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide.
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
CERN is a member of each experiment and contributes to the maintenance and operation budget of the LHC experiments. Costs for Run 1 Exploitation costs of the LHC when running (direct and indirect costs) represent about 80% of the CERN annual budget for operation, maintenance, technical stops, repairs and consolidation work in personnel and ...
LHC - CERN
Feb 5, 2025 · Seven experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) use detectors to analyse the myriad of particles produced by collisions in the accelerator. These experiments are run by collaborations of scientists from institutes all over the world. Each experiment is distinct and characterised by its detectors.
Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024 - CERN
On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the official start of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The third year of LHC Run 3 promises six months of 13.6 TeV proton collisions at an even higher luminosity than before, meaning more collisions for the experiments to ...
Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN
Feb 16, 2015 · Le LHC est l’accélérateur de particules le plus grand et le plus puissant du monde. Il a démarré le 10 septembre 2008 et est le dernier maillon du complexe d’accélérateurs du CERN. Il consiste en un anneau de 27 kilomètres de circonférence formé d’aimants supraconducteurs et de structures accélératrices qui augmentent l ...
High-Luminosity LHC - CERN
For example, the High-Luminosity LHC will produce at least 15 million Higgs bosons per year, compared to around three million from the LHC in 2017. The High-Luminosity LHC project was announced as the top priority of the European Strategy for Particle Physics in 2013. Its development depends on several technological innovations.
ATLAS - CERN
Beams of particles from the LHC collide at the centre of the ATLAS detector making collision debris in the form of new particles, which fly out from the collision point in all directions. Six different detecting subsystems arranged in layers around the collision point record the paths, momentum, and energy of the particles, allowing them to be ...
Chiffres clés du LHC - CERN
En décembre 1994, le Conseil du CERN a approuvé la construction du LHC, et en octobre 1995 l’étude de conception technique du LHC a été publiée. Des contributions du Japon, des États-Unis, de l’Inde et d’autres États non membres ont accéléré le processus et, entre 1996 et 1998, quatre expériences ( ALICE , ATLAS , CMS et LHCb ...
LHC the guide FAQ - CERN
Jul 3, 2018 · How many kilometres of cables are there in the LHC magnets? How low is the pressure in the beam pipe? Discover facts and figures about the Large Hadron Collider in this handy LHC guide: CERN-Brochure-2021-004-Eng.pdf
Experiments - CERN
The biggest experiments at CERN operate at the Large Hadron Collider, seen here during the installation of the accelerator's dipole magnets (Image: Maximilien Brice/Claudia Marcelloni/CERN) The biggest of these experiments, ATLAS and CMS , use general-purpose detectors to investigate the largest range of physics possible.