Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located in a 27-kilometer underground circular tunnel at CERN near Geneva.
Governing formula
Center-of-Mass Energy √s = 13.6 TeV
SI unit
TeV (Tera-electronvolts)
In depth
The LHC uses superconducting niobium-titanium electromagnets cooled to 1.9 K (-271.25 °C) to accelerate opposing beams of protons to 6.8 TeV before colliding them inside giant particle detectors (ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb).
Examples in the real world
Discovering the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012, confirming the final predicted particle of the Standard Model.