IEEE

Upgrade of the automatic DC high voltage multichannel insulation tester for superconducting circuits of the LHC

Abstract: Since the assembly phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and throughout all technical stops, the Electrical Quality Assurance team has conducted over 100 000 high voltage insulation ...

America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next

Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
Smithsonian Magazine

The U.S.’s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

Scientists Found ‘Magic’ Particles in the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research.