Large Hadron Collider
particle collider
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The Large Hadron Collider is a hadron collider.
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Geneva[3], Ain[4]
- Country: Switzerland[5], France[6]
- Instance of: fixed construction[7], synchrotron[8]
- Owned by: CERN[9]
- Follows: Large Electron–Positron Collider[10]
- Followed by: High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider[11]
- Commons category: Large Hadron Collider[12]
- Has part(s): ATLAS experiment[13], CMS experiment[14], A Large Ion Collider Experiment[15], LHCb[16]
- Significant event: Development approvals[17], opening[18], inauguration[19], magnet quench[20], quark–gluon plasma[21], Discovery of the Higgs Boson[22], Opening the tetraquark[23], pentaquark[24]
- Official website: https://home.web.cern.ch/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider[25], https://home.web.cern.ch/fr/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider[26]
- Topic's main category: Category:Large Hadron Collider[27]
- Commons gallery: Large Hadron Collider[28]
- Described by source: Lentapedia[29]
- Structure replaces: Large Electron–Positron Collider[30]
- Date of official opening: October 21, 2008[31]
- Short name: LHC[32], БАК[33]
- Length: 27 km[34]
- History of topic: История строительства и эксплуатации Большого адронного коллайдера[35]
- Uses: superconducting magnet[36], Super Proton Synchrotron[37]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[38]
- Force: 11,000 ampere[39]
Why It Matters
Large Hadron Collider has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 122 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]
It is credited with the discovery of pentaquark[42], a type of quantum particle[43].
FAQs
What did Large Hadron Collider discover?
Large Hadron Collider is credited as discoverer of pentaquark[42].