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
The new CERN Publishing Platform supports many services, ranging from editorial management to publication tasks
The SMB department is setting up a monitoring system in certain CERN car parks in order to evaluate their occupancy rates and make them easier to use
A well-chosen, complex password for your CERN account might not be enough anymore
In early May, CERN welcomed a group of deaf children for a tour of Microcosm and a Fun with Physics demonstration
With a record participation of 128 teams of six runners each, this year’s CERN Relay Race took place on 19 May on the Meyrin site
Newly-launched Quantizer platform transforms ATLAS events into music
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 and one of the pioneers of neutrino research, celebrates his 95th birthday today.
CERN’s CLOUD experiment points to a cloudier pre-industrial climate in two Nature papers published today
CERN invites abstract applications for the workshop, which will investigate how CERN's accelerators can help solve questions of particle physics
Electrical equipment that was damaged by the beech marten has been repaired. The LHC is back on track with ever higher beam intensity.
The impact of the Tevatron programme extended beyond what was originally planned
Ransomware is a type of malware that restricts access to the infected computer system