CERN Accelerating science

This week, technicians opened up the first interconnections between LHC magnets to work on accelerator components inside

The LHC's main magnets operate at temperatures colder than outer space – and it's time to replace the insulation on 1695 interconnections between them

A backstage look at the Large Hadron Collider during CERN's first long shutdown

Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the Large Hadron Collider

Watch the webcast of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at 1pm GMT

A new safety system will bring the standard of personnel radiation protection at the PS into line with that of the LHC

Work is progressing on new technologies that would under pin an upgrade of the LHC in 10 year’s time

The First International School on Laser Applications at Accelerators at GANIL in France brought together laser- and accelerator physicists

Linac 4 has begun testing its RFQ module. This is the first stage of testing for the Linac 2 successor