From performing detailed studies of the Higgs boson to demonstrating the first antimatter quantum bit and converting lead nuclei into gold nuclei, this year CERN further expanded our knowledge of the ...

Des études détaillées du boson de Higgs à la mise en évidence du premier bit quantique d’antimatière, en passant par l’observation de la conversion de noyaux de plomb en noyaux d’or, le CERN a encore ...

In November 2025, CERN hosted the Quantum Business Community (QBC) Summit, the annual gathering of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), of which CERN is an associate member. The event ...

CERN’s strongest asset is its people. The many great accomplishments we presented in our final Directorate meeting on 16 December would not have been possible without your competence, dedication and ...

The framework for former staff members active over retirement age has been updated to recognise continued contributions and clarify roles and expectations for all involved. The Retired Contributing ...

For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, ...

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, which is expected to be operational after 2025, will increase the LHC’s luminosity by a factor of 10. Luminosity is an important indicator of the performance of an accelerator ...

Particle physicist, Eckhard Elsen (born in 1955, German) held many committee positions, including chairing the LHC experiments committee from 2011-2014. Eckhard Elsen - Director for Research and ...

Le nombre de données collectées auprès des expériences du Grand collisionneur de hadrons (LHC) a atteint la barre d’un ...

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of ...

One exabyte of experimental data has now been gathered from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking a major milestone for CERN’s storage system. The LHC smashes billions of protons together every ...