This parking gives you access to Point 8 - LHCb.

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.

This check-in point will give you access to Point 8 - LHCb, please bring your registration information with you to receive your wristband.

Sandwiches and salads

This gate gives your access to Point 8 - LHCb. It is compulsory to have a wristband that you first received at a check-in desk.

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First aid point for Point 8 LHC. A team of first aiders is available in cases of accidents or illness.

Come to the LHCb assembly hall to see the particle detectors that the LHCb experiment is making for the next run of data taking in 2021.

Find out about the new modular data centre that's being built for the upgraded LHCb detector. This facility will house the detector's readout system, which is connected to front-end electronics in the underground cavern via 19 000 optical fibres, and the 2000 or so servers of the "high-level trigger" farm that processes and filters the data coming out of the detector. The data centre uses an indirect free air-cooling system, which has an electric power consumption corresponding to less than 10% of the electric power needed to operate the IT equipment.

Back at the surface from your underground visit of the LHCb experiment, see a collection of the particle detectors that make up the experiment.