At CERN, we probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us. We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments.
Know more
Who we are
Our Mission
Our Governance
Our Member States
Our History
Our People
What we do
Fundamental research
Contribute to society
Environmentally responsible research
Bring nations together
Inspire and educate
Fast facts and FAQs
Key Achievements
Key achievements submenu
The Higgs Boson
The W boson
The Z boson
The Large Hadron Collider
The Birth of the web
Antimatter
News
Accelerators
At CERN
Computing
Engineering
Experiments
Knowledge sharing
Physics
Events
CERN Community
News and announcements
Official communications
Scientists
Press Room
Press Room submenu
Media News
Resources
Contact
The research programme at CERN covers topics from kaons to cosmic rays, and from the Standard Model to supersymmetry
Dark matter
The early universe
The Higgs boson
The Standard Model
+ More
CERN's accelerators
The Antiproton Decelerator
High-Luminosity LHC
Accelerating: radiofrequency cavities
Steering and focusing: magnets and superconductivity
Circulating: ultra-high vacuum
Cooling: cryogenic systems
Powering: energy at CERN
The CERN Data Centre
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
CERN openlab
Open source for open science
The birth of the web
ALICE
ATLAS
CMS
LHCb
By Topic
By format
360 image
Annual report
Brochure
Bulletin
Courier
Image
Video
By audience
CERN community
Educators
General public
Industry
Media
Students
New magnets designed for the High-Luminosity LHC - the Large Hadron Collider upgrade project – are in the prototype phase
A look back at fifty years of Fermilab’s history, as it celebrates a half-century of scientific achievement today
CERN today announced the winners of its 2017 Beamline for Schools competition: Charging Cavaliers, from Canada, and TCO-ASA, from Italy
Watch our Facebook Live to learn more about the world’s largest neutrino particle hunter and how it will journey to Fermilab
9 June is International Archives Day and an opportunity to browse CERN’s rich archive
The LHC has been accelerating more and more protons, and to allow the machine to reach its maximum intensity, it will undergo a thorough scrubbing.
The first High-School Students Internship Programme at CERN was launched in May 2017
Data-taking has started again at the LHC: the experiments are continuing their exploration of physics at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.
The 200th ISS spacewalk included a new installation on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
Allan, Jordan, 16 May 2017. The SESAME light source was today officially opened by His Majesty King Abdullah II.
Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017
On Friday 12 May at 4:30pm CEST, we will be live on Facebook, from the CERN Data Centre, with three European astronauts answering your questions
