The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. It is a 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring-shaped tunnel that accelerates particles to nearly the speed of light and then collides them with each other. The collisions produce high-energy subatomic particles that can be studied by scientists to better understand the fundamental laws of nature.
The LHC has been a major focus of particle physics research since it began operation in 2008. It has made numerous groundbreaking discoveries, including the detection of the Higgs boson, a particle that is believed to give other particles mass. The LHC is also used to search for new particles and study the properties of matter and antimatter.
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Researchers investigate whether dark matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles. The existence of dark matter is a long-standing puzzle…
CMS presents results of searches for long-lived neutral particles. The CMS collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has recently presented new results in searches for…
New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%. The ATLAS collaboration has achieved the most precise measurement to date…
A study conducted by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Accelerator has gained insights into the properties of strong interactions between protons at ultra-high…
The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind. The Big Bang is…
What happens if dark-matter particles are produced inside a jet of Standard-Model particles? This leads to a novel detector signature known as semi-visible jets! The…
Where does the Higgs boson come from? The CERN Theoretical Physics department hosted a workshop to explore unconventional explanations for the Higgs boson’s properties and…
The first phase involves a major geographical, geological, and environmental data-gathering effort. CERN is exploring the Future Circular Collider (FCC) as a potential successor to…
Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season. After a 17-week year-end technical stop (YETS) for maintenance and…
The first observation of collider neutrinos at the LHC paves the way for exploring new physics scenarios. Although neutrinos are produced abundantly in collisions at…
Discovery promises to help physicists understand nature of universe’s most abundant particle. In a scientific first, a team led by physicists at the University of…
The Large Hadron Collider is once again delivering proton collisions to experiments, this time at an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, marking the start of…
Three never-before-seen particles have been observed by the international Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery includes a…
The device hopes to answer the ultimate existential questions. The final piece of an all-new detector has completed the first leg of its journey toward…
A new and surprising duality has been found in theoretical particle physics. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes that can occur in…