CERN Accelerating science

QUACO enters
into Phase 2

Pooling efforts for the HL-LHC upgrade in QUACO enters second stage.

Accelerator Fault
Tracking at CERN

The AFT system aims to investigate the reliability and availability of the LHC. 

Circulating ideas about a new Higgs factory

Could the LHC tunnel one day house a high-luminosity electron-positron collider? This idea joined others at the LEP3 Day, held at CERN on 18 June 2012.

LHC - Higgs factory

With a wry smile, Fabiola Gianotti showed the significance of the combined gamma-gamma and 4 lepton channels. "We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV."