Large Hadron Collider

To learn more about the particles they collide, physicists turn their attention to a less destructive type of collision in the LHC.

The Large Hadron Collider has launched a new era for particle physics. Today at 6:06 a.m. CDT (1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the first particles collided at the record energy of seven trillion electron volts (TeV).