Gravitational Force
experiments
Nov 18
Sep 17
CERN sites
The smaller accelerators are located on the main Meyrin site (also known as the West Area), which was originally built in Switzerland alongside the French border, but has been extended to span the border since 1965. The French side is under Swiss jurisdiction and so there is no obvious border within the site, apart from a line of marker stones. There are six entrances to the Meyrin site:
Sep 15
Sep 10
Mass-media: CERN, LHC - First beam, First day, First results
Experiments at CERN help us understand the world we live in
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Every visitor to CERN – I was lucky enough to go down into the tunnels last year – is overwhelmed by the sheer scale of this enterprise: millions of man ...
Sep 10
Large Hadron Collider, first beam - First results
PRESS RELEASE
First beam in the LHC - accelerating science
Geneva, 10 September 2008
The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.
Sep 10
Particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider
Current complex
CERN operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator. Currently active machines are:
Sep 08
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