What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its ...

A slender glass fibre no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibres to measure the profile ...

In 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was installed on the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, it has recorded more than 200 billion cosmic ray events and, while most of their ...

They won’t pinch you and you won’t find them on the beach. The name of the new radio-frequency crab cavities has nothing to do with their appearance and is merely illustrative of the effect they will ...

LEIR takes long pulses of lead ions from Linac 3 and transforms them into the short, dense bunches suitable for injection to the Large Hadron Collider The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) receives long ...

To unravel some of the mysteries surrounding neutrinos, CERN sent a beam through 732 kilometres of solid rock to the CNGS project in Italy The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) project aimed to ...

It takes a lot of electricity to power the world’s largest scientific experiment – but superconducting wires can help keep those energy costs down At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December ...

The Library is at the heart of CERN and plays a key role in supporting scientific research in the Organization. It offers a range of services, including a quiet space to study and think. Since its ...

This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community ...

HiLumi LHC is a major upgrade of CERN’s existing 27‑kilometre Large Hadron Collider on the French–Swiss border, designed to deliver about ten times more collisions and data than the LHC’s original ...

The enthusiasm and motivation to explore particle physics at the high-energy frontier knows no borders between the nations and regions of the planet. It is shared between physicists of widely ...