The LHC is the largest accelerator in a long chain of machines, each of which can only accelerate particles within a certain range of energies. Come and discover the special systems that are used to transfer the particles from one accelerator to another.

Come and watch a short film about the ALICE experiment, see real particle-detector components, and find out about the methods and technologies that are used to detect and identify particles. Physicists will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

Discover the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a multi-purpose magnetic spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS) that measures cosmic-ray events up to teraelectronvolt energies. These events are analysed at the AMS Science Operations Centre located at CERN and at universities around the world.

Visit the unique Antimatter Factory and get great and up-close views of the AD and ELENA synchrotrons, which slow down antiprotons and send them to experiments for studies of antimatter.

Take a tour through a truly historic building, which currently houses one of the major upgrade projects of the ATLAS collaboration: the New Small Wheels. Take a look at detector and prototype exhibits, witness the ongoing construction of the New Small Wheels, each nine meters in diameter, and learn about what it takes to build and run a particle-physics experiment the size of an apartment building.

Take a tour of the ATLAS Visitor Centre. Learn about the experiment, take a peek at the ATLAS control room, and see the original prototype pieces of the detector pieces in the exhibition.

Discover an emerging acceleration technology that has the potential to drastically reduce the size, and thus the cost, of accelerators in the next several decades.

Imagine looking for an object 10 times thinner than a human hair that's moving close to the speed of light in a tunnel 100 metres underground. That's what beam experts at CERN do, monitoring the particle beams that travel in CERN's accelerators. Find out how they monitor the beams and try to play with a virtual beam yourself.

Come and discover the cutting-edge devices used to protect equipment and people from the huge amount of energy carried by the particle beams that are accelerated at CERN. Experts are on hand to explain the technical challenges of the design, fabrication and operation of absorbers, collimators and targets.

At this visit point you'll be able to see an old and a new radio-frequency system for particle acceleration in the Proton Synchrotron Booster machine and learn about particle-acceleration techniques that are adopted in synchrotron accelerators.