The LHC is currently shut down. Teams will now dismantle 1.2 kilometres of the accelerator to install the new HiLumi LHC equipment. This will be connected to the equipment installed in the new HiLumi ...

This phase, known as “Long Shutdown 3” or “LS3”, is expected to last up to four years and will involve thousands of experts across CERN’s sites and tunnels. The work will cover civil engineering, ...

Mick Storr was the face of CERN’s Teacher Programmes and a mentor to teachers around the world. (Image: Anna Pantelia / CERN) It was with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Mick Storr ...

At any moment in time, CERN is training thousands of young people across a large spectrum of competencies, providing society with a continuous stream of talent in science, technology, engineering and ...

The second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex provides a stepping stone between the Proton Synchrotron and the LHC The SPS became the workhorse of CERN’s particle physics programme when it ...

There’s more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light The accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines ...

Layout of a printed circuit board made using KiCad. The cornerstone of open source philosophy is that the recipients of technology should have access to all of its building blocks, such as software ...

From performing detailed studies of the Higgs boson to demonstrating the first antimatter quantum bit and converting lead nuclei into gold nuclei, this year CERN further expanded our knowledge of the ...

British experimental particle physicist Mark Thomson is CERN’s Director-General from 2026 to 2030. In the video interview below, he answers questions about where particle physics stands today, his ...

A simplified visualisation of the 23 exotic hadrons discovered so far at the LHC. Each particle contains at least one charm quark and a mixture of up, down and strange quarks. Quark and hadron masses ...

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand times hotter than at the centre of the Sun. Yet, somehow, light atomic nuclei and their ...