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
On 16 November at 18:00, a premiere screening of the film "The Sense of Beauty" will take place in the Main Auditorium
While 31 October may mean Halloween to some, to laboratories around the world it means Dark Matter Day
With 19 days still to go, the LHC has reached its 2017 production target, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the experiments
In the real world, we have become accustomed to acting securely, but we struggle to keep our computers up to date such that basic digital protections
ATLAS finds evidence of the Higgs boson produced in association with a pair of top quarks
Partially ionised xenon atoms have been accelerated in the SPS to test a new gamma-ray source concept
Five high-school students from Germany conducted their own research at CERN as part of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt programme
Issue 22 of Accelerating News is now available
Live from IdeaSquare, CERN's innovation centre, from 13:00 on October 25 2017
The LHC had the unique opportunity of colliding xenon nuclei over several hours
The fourth edition of THE Port Humanitarian Hackathon took place at CERN’s IdeaSquare
Now attackers have started increasing the pressure, and now comes the next level: “Doxware”