Activity Overview

Put yourself in the shoes of the operators of the protoDUNE neutrino detector and learn how they visualise the data that the detector captures.

Prévessin

Is football your thing? Come here to play football with protons: the harder you kick, the more particles are produced. Try also an interactive experiment that illustrates the Higgs field through which particles gain mass, and an interactive game that shows how proton therapy works.

Point 6 - LHC

Is football your thing? Come here to play football with protons: the harder you kick, the more particles are produced. Try also an interactive experiment that illustrates the Higgs field through which particles gain mass, and an interactive game that shows how proton therapy works.

Point 4 - LHC

Discover radiation protection at CERN. Get explanations of the notions of natural and artificial radioactivity and learn about the measurement techniques used at CERN.

Meyrin

Discover the next generation of radio-frequency power amplifiers based on solid-state technology and see a 'travelling-wave cavity' to accelerate particles.

Prévessin

Are you faster than the LHC fast protection system? To protect the LHC in the event of a problem, the huge energy stored in the LHC particle beams must be discharged in less than a thousandth of a second. Test your reaction time and try to beat the LHC fast protection systems.

Point 4 - LHC

Join the CERN Fitness club and others on the Sustainable Dance Floor, which uses human movement as a source of energy. This kinetic energy is converted into electricity that powers the floor's LED lights. Through this process, the floor interacts with the dancers to involve them in an interactive energy experience.

Meyrin

Learn and practice cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other life-saving emergency techniques.

Point 5 - CMS
Point 5 - CMS

Do you like retrogaming and retrocomputing? Come and see an exhibition of computers and consoles from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Atari, Commodore, Amstrad, IBM, Sega and Nintendo.

Meyrin

Come here to see the robots and the virtual-reality and artificial-intelligence technologies that carry out maintenance work for CERN's accelerators.

Prévessin