Following a two-year shutdown for maintenance and upgrades, Ned Stafford looks at how the LHC has been improved to allow researchers to hunt for new particles Power boost The upgrade and maintenance ...

The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the ...

Deep beneath the serene landscape straddling the border of France and Switzerland, a marvel of modern science and engineering lies in wait. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a massive particle ...

In September 2024, physicists made a discovery at CERN that could change how we understand the universe. For the first time, ...

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A novel beam diagnostic instrument developed by researchers in the University of Liverpool's QUASAR Group has been approved ...

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they ...

For the last two years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN), has been hibernating while scientists tinkered with and worked on upgrading ...

The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in action after a three-year break for maintenance and an upgrade with more energy, higher intensity beams and greater ...

On Tuesday, July 5, at a giant underground compound in Meyrin, Switzerland, physicists announced that they had discovered three "exotic" particles, never before seen by science — a feat accomplished ...

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is about to turn back on. In December of 2018, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, shut down so that ...

The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organizations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the ...