The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – first started up on 10 September 2008 and re...
...ogress—now!
Light behaves in surprising ways—it can act like both a wave and a particle. The double slit experiment reveals wave-like interference, while the photoelectric effect s...
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...
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...
Christian Smorra explains how the BASE-STEP portable antiproton trap captures and stores antiprotons. On 24 March 2026, 92 antiprotons were transported around the CERN site in this trap loaded onto...
...n properties could be performed.
Antimatter is a naturally occurring class of particles that is almost identical to ordinary matter except that the electric charge and magnetic mo...
Interview of Marta Bajko, Head of IT String project. Scientists at CERN have triggered the complex cooldown of a 95-m-long test stand that reproduces the underground configuration of innovative tec...
#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..
...fore or after a collision or explosion.
Sections:
00:00 - Momentum of a single particle
01:00 - Conservation of linear momentum
03:20 - Calculating velocity after collision
05:43 -...
The final CMS Week of 2025 took place in Seoul from December 8th to 12th, and once again, we enjoyed an amazing poster session!
Now the question is: can our scientists explain their research in u...
A Particle is a Particle
... workers from a wide range of airborne hazards. Learn what aerosols are, why “a particle is a particle,” and how respirator filters capture particles through mechanical and electros...
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LHC delivers a record number of particle collisions in 2025 - https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/lhc-delivers-record-number-par...
What is antimatter?
Why do matter and antimatter annihilate and what happens when they do?
How much antimatter can we make and what can we use it for?
All of this in the first episode of Antimatt...
...solve tensions underlying the SM value. One of the most intriguing anomalies in particle physics is therefore severely undermined, but not yet definitively resolved.
Guests :
Fred...
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 lumino...
In this special episode celebrating the United Nations' International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and #WorldQuantumDay, we dive into the mysterious world of quantum entanglement—this tim...
...a superconducting material called niobium–tin (Nb3Sn), which is being used in a particle accelerator for the very first time, in order to reach higher magnetic fields.
It was trans...