🕶 Discover CERN in Virtual Reality with this short clip. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the LHC. It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Al

Since 2003, a LHC dipole magnet turned into a telescope has been following the Sun's movements from behind a concrete wall. This is the CAST experiment - hunting for hypothetical "axion" particles that could be produced in the centre of our star ☀️ Find out more about this experiment: https://home.cern/science/experiments/cast | CERN

1.4K views · 56 reactions | AWAKE is CERN's plasma wakefield accelerator, a new breed of collider that can study fundamental physics in new ways. AWAKE's project lead Edda Gschwendtner explains how wakefield accelerators work https://www.newscientist.com/article/2360299-the-cern-particle-accelerator-that-will-breathe-new-life-into-physics/ | New Scientist | Facebook