Before CERN had the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), that famous tunnel under France and Switzerland was home to the Large Electron–Positron collider (LEP). It was switched on 30 years ago in 1989. and ...

Building the next collider Yet CERN is not the only one developing new circular collider designs. In November, physicists in China unveiled the conceptual design for its own 100 km tunnel, which would ...

The Large Hadron Collider is just that — large. The particle accelerator is the world’s biggest, and inside its nearly 17-mile-ring of superconducting magnets, particles collide at nearly the ...

The first stage is a electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) that will slam together negatively charged electrons, their positive antiparticle counterparts, known as positrons, and other light particles.

The Large Hadron Collider is the most advanced and complex machine ever built by humanity, but there's only so much you can do with a 27-kilometer particle collider. So, CERN has approved plans to ...

The Large Hadron Collider is just that - large. The particle accelerator is the world's biggest, and inside its nearly 17-mile-ring of superconducting magnets, particles collide at nearly the ...

But it would potentially get us a two-for-one, just as the tunnels occupied by the LHC did. Initially, an electron-positron collider would be built for a detailed characterization of the Higgs boson.

Detector layout. CERN The primary goal of the electron-positron collider would be to study the Higgs boson, the particle of the other fundamental particles.

After eleven years and a nail-biting three-month reprieve, the death knell for the Large Electron–Positron collider (LEP) in Geneva has finally been sounded. Last week, Luciano Maiani, director ...