
The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
Sep 10, 2008 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the ...
59 new hadrons and counting - CERN
Mar 3, 2021 · The hadron discoveries from the LHC experiments keep coming, mainly from LHCb, which is particularly suited to studying particles containing heavy quarks. The first hadron discovered at the LHC, χb(3P), was discovered by ATLAS, and the most recent ones include a new excited beauty strange baryon observed by CMS and four tetraquarks detected by ...
From partons to hadrons - CERN
Oct 9, 2023 · Physics experiments like those at CERN have shown that the world is made up of elementary particles. Some of them, quarks, are forever bound within particles called hadrons. Although scientists know that these elementary building blocks exist, they cannot describe exactly how quarks form protons or neutrons. This lack of knowledge is due to a unique feature of the …
Le Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN
Le LHC, l’accélérateur de particules le plus grand et le plus puissant du monde, est le dernier maillon du complexe d’accélérateurs du CERN. Il consiste en un anneau de 27 kilomètres de circonférence formé d’aimants supraconducteurs et de structures accélératrices qui augmentent l ...
A bestiary of exotic hadrons - CERN
Feb 20, 2025 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered 76 new particles so far. In addition to discovering the unique Higgs boson, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has found 52 new hadrons made up of two or three elementary particles called quarks and a bestiary of 23 oddities which confound easy explanation. These exotic hadrons appear …
The Standard Model - CERN
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle was consistent with the Higgs boson but it took further work to determine whether or not it was the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model.
59 nouveaux hadrons, et ce n'est pas fini - CERN
Mar 3, 2021 · Le premier hadron découvert au LHC, χb(3P), a été découvert par ATLAS ; plus récemment, un baryon beauté étrange excité a été observé par CMS, et quatre tétraquarks ont été détectés par LHCb. Tableau complet des nouveaux hadrons découverts au LHC, répartis en fonction de l’année de découverte et de la masse de la particule.
Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The accelerator sits in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
A ten-year journey through the quark–gluon plasma and beyond
Nov 9, 2022 · Hadron formation at high temperatures During the evolution of a heavy-ion collision, the QGP cools below the transition temperature and hadronises. After this hadronisation, the energy density may be large enough to allow for inelastic (hadron-creating) interactions, which change the medium’s “chemical” composition, in terms of particle ...
Key Achievements - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider. The 27-kilometre LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator. It collides ...