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 ATLAS collaboration releases full analysis likelihoods, a first for an LHC experiment
Nearly 90% of High-Energy Physics publications are funded by SCOAP³
As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools
The Standard Model Lagrangian equation, seen on t-shirts and mugs from CERN, is explained line-by-line in a new paper aimed at teachers
After three years of successful operation and growth, CERN announces continuation of global SCOAP3 Open Access initiative for another three
The CMS collaboration makes 300 TB of high-quality data from the LHC available to the public through the CERN Open Data Portal
People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"
The release of the Open Data Portal is a significant milestone on the road to Open Science, but there is work ahead
The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all
As of 2015, 95% of CERN-authored high-energy physics articles will be published Open Access in high-quality peer-reviewed journals
CERN today confirms that the Open Access publishing initiative SCOAP<sup>3</sup> will start on 1 January 2014