Category: Large Hadron Collider

CERN May Shut Down Large Hadron Collider, Other Particle Accelerators Due to European Energy Crisis

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is planning to shut down some of its particle accelerators, including the world’s biggest particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—amid an energy crisis in France. CERN, located near the France–Switzerland border, consumes about 200 megawatts of electricity during peak operation. This is nearly a third of the electricity…


Scientists at CERN Observe 3 ‘Exotic’ Particles for First Time

GENEVA—Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three subatomic particles never seen before as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe, the European nuclear research centre CERN said on Tuesday. The 27 kilometer-long (16.8 mile) LHC at CERN is the machine that found the Higgs boson particle, which along…