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  1. 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 …

  2. 59 new hadrons and counting - CERN

    Mar 3, 2021 · The first hadron discovered at the LHC, χb (3P), was discovered by ATLAS, and the most recent ones include a new excited beauty strange baryon observed by CMS and four …

  3. hadron - CERN

    Feb 20, 2025 · hadron A hadron is a subatomic particle that contains quarks, antiquarks, and gluons, and so experiences the strong force. (See also Particles.)

  4. From partons to hadrons - CERN

    Oct 9, 2023 · They were able to follow the parton-to-hadron evolution from the parton shower stage, when the quarks and gluons are deconfined, to the hadronic phase, when the partons …

  5. Accelerators - CERN

    The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful accelerator in the world. It boosts particles, such as protons, which form all the matter we know. Accelerated to a speed close to that of light, …

  6. Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN

    Facts and figures about the LHC Why is it called the “Large Hadron Collider”? "Large" refers to its size, approximately 27km in circumference "Hadron" because it accelerates protons or ions, …

  7. A bestiary of exotic hadrons - CERN

    Feb 20, 2025 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered 76 new particles so far. In addition to discovering the unique Higgs boson, the world’s largest and most powerful particle …

  8. And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway

    May 5, 2025 · Today at 13h51, the engineer in charge of the LHC at the CERN Control Centre announced that stable beams had returned to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marking the …

  9. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC - CERN

    May 8, 2025 · In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron …

  10. The Standard Model - CERN

    On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This …