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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The ALPHA Collaboration has increased the precision of its measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen by two orders of magnitude.
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...
What are the four fundamental forces of nature?
We celebrate 100 years since the birth of ICTP founder and Nobel laureate
Prof. Abdus Salam by asking our High Energy Physics diploma students about his work and legacy.
ICTP Postgraduate Diploma
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What are the four fundamental forces of nature?
We celebrate 100 years since the birth of ICTP founder and Nobel laureate
Prof. Abdus Salam by asking our High Energy Physics diploma students about his work and legacy.
ICTP Postgraduate Diploma
...
Can you measure the electroweak force?
We celebrate 100 years since the birth of ICTP founder and Nobel laureate
Prof. Abdus Salam by asking our High Energy Physics diploma students about his work and legacy.
ICTP Postgraduate Diploma
...
What is the electroweak force?
We celebrate 100 years since the birth of ICTP founder and Nobel laureate
Prof. Abdus Salam by asking our High Energy Physics diploma students about his work and legacy.
ICTP Postgraduate Diploma
...
On 20 April 2026, another important milestone was reached for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (hashtag#HiLumiLHC), with the start of the electrical powering of the 95-metre-long test stan...
ICTP Distinguished Conversation: Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen, one of the world’s best-known physicists to work in the field of string theory, is interviewed by ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar.
The two discuss Sen's far-ranging work on various aspe...
Curious to see nuclear science and technology in action? Join us for the Long Night of Research #LNR26 at the ...
Curious to see nuclear science and technology in action? Join us for the Long Night of Research #LNR26 at the ...
...launch webinar celebrating the publication of the Rising Stars Special Issue of Nuclear Technology journal.
This milestone edition showcases peer-reviewed papers authored b...
Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. The team managed...
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...
ICTP Arab Fund Associate Nada Abbas is a medical physicist from Sudan and an assistant professor at Taibah University, in Saudi Arabia. In her research, she studies how to optimize radiation levels...
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Linear momentum is conserved in all interactio...
