TheLarge Hadron Collider(LHC) is the largest and most complex machine ever created by mankind. It is a tunnel 27 km in circumference built underground on the border between France and Switzerland, with two tubes in which a vacuum similar to that of interstellar space has been generated. Around the tubes are more than 1,600 superconducting electromagnets, cooled to a temperature below that of outer space (-271.3 ºC), which accelerate protons and heavy ions in the empty tubes to speeds very close to the speed of light.
A 360º tour of the Large Hadron Collider. Credits: BBC News
Although the distance makes visits to the LHC difficult, Saphir Millennium Institute academics carry out activities related to the LHC and guided tours of the particle accelerator and the Atlas experiment, one of the seven detectors where hadron collisions are analyzed.
If you are interested in participating in one of the visits organized by our research team, we invite you to regularly check our calendar of events and to follow us on our social networks.