At CERN, we probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us. We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments.
Know more
Who we are
Our Mission
Our Governance
Our Member States
Our History
Our People
What we do
Fundamental research
Contribute to society
Environmentally responsible research
Bring nations together
Inspire and educate
Fast facts and FAQs
Key Achievements
Key achievements submenu
The Higgs Boson
The W boson
The Z boson
The Large Hadron Collider
The Birth of the web
Antimatter
News
Accelerators
At CERN
Computing
Engineering
Experiments
Knowledge sharing
Physics
Events
CERN Community
News and announcements
Official communications
Scientists
Press Room
Press Room submenu
Media News
Resources
Contact
The research programme at CERN covers topics from kaons to cosmic rays, and from the Standard Model to supersymmetry
Dark matter
The early universe
The Higgs boson
The Standard Model
+ More
CERN's accelerators
The Antiproton Decelerator
High-Luminosity LHC
Accelerating: radiofrequency cavities
Steering and focusing: magnets and superconductivity
Circulating: ultra-high vacuum
Cooling: cryogenic systems
Powering: energy at CERN
The CERN Data Centre
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
CERN openlab
Open source for open science
The birth of the web
ALICE
ATLAS
CMS
LHCb
By Topic
By format
360 image
Annual report
Brochure
Bulletin
Courier
Image
Video
By audience
CERN community
Educators
General public
Industry
Media
Students
The High-School Teacher programme, which involved 46 teachers from 33 countries during 2 weeks in July, celebrated its 20th anniversary
The Joint Universities Accelerator School in Archamps, France, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday
After passing the pilot phase, the new programme will now open up to five more countries
Four CERN technical apprentices were awarded their certificat fédéral de capacité in 2017
UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft
Sijbrand de Jong explains why even the busiest physicists can find time to help inspire and educate the next generation
All primary and secondary students and teachers can participate - in their own language with prizes for you & your classroom
AcceleratAR uses paper cubes and an augmented reality app to simulate a particle accelerator to help students learn about particle physics
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, explains why knowledge for knowledge’s sake is the most valuable commodity we possess
This year marks the 10,000th teacher to visit CERN since its first teacher programme in 1998
A design for a Lego LHC needs about 3000 more signatures for Lego to consider it for a new product
The third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2016, to be held near Beijing, China, 12-25 October 2016, is open for applications