The basic building block of the accelerator uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves and is just 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) thick, with this drastic size reduction potentially ...

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are wonders of modern engineering and vending machines for Nobel prizes, but they’re also large – as indicated by the LHC's name ...

Engineers at CERN are closing in on the completion of a crucial test facility for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider ...

Dr. Nellist works on the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment at CERN. We discuss what it's like to work with the world's largest particle accelerator. How did you come to be involved with the ...

Last week, a preliminary test of the collider's equipment beamed particles most of the way through the accelerator ... [particle] for at least a year." Still, he said, "there's always room for ...

Particle accelerators may have a unique place in the ... The LHC detectors include ATLAS and CMS, the largest detectors designed to investigate a wide range of physical phenomena, and the ...

The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider ... The beams collide in the machine at four points or "detectors" called ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LGCb, each of which focusses ...

LHC's three-year shutdown allowed scientists to make substantial upgrades to four key experiments on the particle accelerator. It's ATLAS and CMS detectors detectors alone will receive more ...

At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, finding evidence for supersymmetry became the next great expectation after its ATLAS and CMS ...