The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

The shutdown will involve removing and replacing 1.2 km of magnets and components at the Large Hadron Collider ...

The LHC facility at CERN is famous for the discovery of the Higgs boson, dubbed the ‘God particle’.

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will undergo some major upgrades during the 4-year hiatus.

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark ...

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Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next ...

Raymond Davis Jr. is dwarfed by the giant tank used by the Homestake detector in South Dakota, which first detected solar ...

Particle physics has revolutionized the way we look at the universe. Along the way, it’s made significant impacts on other fields of science, improved daily life for people around the world and ...

For the past half century or so, a theory known by the understated name of the Standard Model has dominated the field of particle physics. This theory provides us with a detailed description of the 17 ...