EXPLORE experiments, buildings and sites

Find out about the Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), which searches for candidate particles for dark matter and dark energy from the Sun. The telescope is made from a prototype of a magnet for the LHC, and tracks the Sun for 100 minutes in the morning.

Point 8 - LHCb
Point 8 - LHCb

Discover how CERN gives back knowledge and technologies to society, the Laboratory's impact all over the world and its future plans to stimulate scientific curiosity in the public at large. Discover also CERN's Science Gateway project for a new scientific education and outreach centre designed by world-renowned architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Point 1 - ATLAS

Discover the nerve centre from which the particles of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are controlled.

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Come and see a selection of photos taken by members of the CERN Photo Club.

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See part of a working accelerator facility, the recent user facility for accelerator R&D CLEAR, learn about how it operates, and find out about the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study, which used a former test facility from which CLEAR evolved.

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Visit the two-beam modules laboratory and get a sneak preview of what the proposed future Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) accelerator could look like. The lab contains three prototype two-beam modules, mechanical mock-ups used to study this principal building block of CLIC.

Meyrin

Discover the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), a study for a possible future machine to collide electrons and positrons (antielectrons) at 3 teraelectronvolts based on novel technologies such as two-beam acceleration.

Meyrin

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science" said Albert Einstein. Come and see the CMS art exhibition.

Point 5 - CMS
Point 5 - CMS

Discover the technologies that underpin the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector and its subdetectors.

Point 5 - CMS

Code of the Universe is a travelling photographic exhibition that captures worldwide collaborative efforts to understand the universe and how these efforts have led to an array of scientific and technological breakthroughs. Come here to see part of the exhibition. The full exhibition can be seen at https://codeoftheuniverse.web.cern.ch.

Meyrin