The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – first started up on 10 September 2008 and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex.
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Light behaves in surprising ways—it can act like both a wave and a particle. The double slit experiment...
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What’s going on at the #LHC? 🤔
While the Large Hadron Collider mostly collides protons, once a year it collides heavy ions – such as lead nuclei – a key ingredient for recreating the extreme condi..
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, high-energy beams collide in our giant detectors, generating vast amounts of data. This data is visualized through event displays.
To create these displays, experi...
During our 86th parabolic flight campaign, researchers fired a laser at ultralight graphene aerogels in zero gravity.
They shot forward. Instantly. In 30 m...
2026 ICTP-IBM Richard Feynman Prize in Quantum Computing Ceremony
The ICTP-IBM Richard Feynman Prize in Quantum Computing, named in honour of quantum mechanics pioneer Richard Feynman, is open to established career researchers who have made significant contributi...
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Angular momentum is conserved in all interacti...
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The magnitude of the angular momentum of a ri...
In physics, waves and particles seem like complete opposites. And yet, at CERN, we could not explore the incredible world of elementary particles without a thorough understanding of wave physics. T...
#HiLumiLHC? 🤔
Listen to Markus Zerlauth , Project Leader for the High-Luminosity LHC – the successor to CERN’s flagship accelerator – as he explains the next steps of the project and what it would..
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Linear momentum is conserved in all interactio...
LHC sets a new world record of luminosity at 125 fb-1 in 2025. During the proton run, ended on 4 November 2025, an exceptional volume of data was collected at a collision energy of 13.6 teraelectro...
The performance of particle colliders is usually quantified by the beam energy and the luminosity. By increasing luminosity, there will be more particle collisions, meaning more data, and a greate...
Magnets on the move 🧲
A crucial piece of the #HiLumiLHC puzzle is the installation of new superconducting quadrupole magnets on either side of the ATLAS Experiment and CMS Experiment.
The red tu..
Dirac Medallists Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi are interviewed by ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar and by Rosario Fazio, former Head of ICTP’s Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics section.
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Physics Nobel Laureates Serge Haroche and Anne L'Huillier are interviewed by ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar and by Rosario Fazio, former Head of ICTP’s Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics secti...
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