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  1. Accelerators - CERN

    Accelerators use electromagnetic fields to accelerate and steer particles. Radiofrequency cavities boost the particle beams, while magnets focus the beams and bend their trajectory. In a …

  2. How an accelerator works - CERN

    How an accelerator works Electric fields and radiofrequency cavities accelerate particles inside accelerators, while powerful magnets focus or steer the particle beams Accelerators were …

  3. The Large Hadron Collider - CERN

    Nov 28, 2010 · The Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting …

  4. The accelerator complex | CERN

    science accelerators accelerator complex The accelerator complex CERN’s accelerator complex There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together …

  5. Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN

    The maintenance and upgrade works represent about 100 MCHF for the LHC and 50 MCHF for the accelerator complex without the LHC. What is the LHC power consumption? The total …

  6. About CERN

    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 …

  7. The Proton Synchrotron - CERN

    The PS first accelerated protons on 24 November 1959, becoming for a brief period the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. The PS was CERN’s first synchrotron. It was initially …

  8. The Future Circular Collider | CERN

    The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is developing designs for higher performance particle colliders that could follow on from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) once it reaches the end of …

  9. How can physicists make particle accelerators more efficient?

    Sep 11, 2024 · The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), one of the many accelerators in CERN’s complex that will benefit from the EPA project. (Image: CERN) As particle accelerator …

  10. The accelerator complex - CERN

    The accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies. Each machine boosts the energy of a beam of particles, before …