It will be placed at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet – twice as deep as the LHC), and it will have eight surface sites and four experiments. The ring's placement and layout have been ...

We perform research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. There are a large number of tasks that can be done over the academic year and in the summertime (the latter are paid ...

CERN physicists created gold atoms by smashing lead ions together at near-light speed inside the Large Hadron Collider. The transmutation occurs when lead nuclei lose three protons, transforming ...

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have turned lead into gold — albeit for only a fraction of a second and at ...