Accelerating Innovation — CERN and Industry
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s most prominent research centers, was founded in the 1950s to collaborate research into high-energy particle physics. Today, it is known as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) and has its headquarters near Geneve, Switzerland. It presently houses the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator (the Large Hadron Collider) and examines matter at the tiniest distance scales accessible to any experiment.
CERN exists primarily for “purely scientific and fundamental character” study. Its business is basic physics — discovering what makes our Universe work, where it came from, and where it is heading. If you see a news story about unusual new subatomic particles, the finding is likely by CERN.
Extensive Research Infrastructures
CERN offers the world’s most extensive and most versatile facilities of its type. The Laboratory equips researchers with cutting-edge scientific facilities. These are accelerators that accelerate microscopic particles to a fraction of the speed of light and detectors that operate as electronic eyes, allowing the particles to be seen.
CERN produces cutting-edge facilities and technology in accelerators, detectors, and computing for researchers to use in their research. To examine nature’s tiniest building elements, the fundamental particles, the Laboratory deploys some of the world’s largest and most complex machinery. The accelerators accelerate these minuscule matter particles to a fraction of the speed of light, and detectors operate like electronic eyes, making the particles visible and unraveling the fundamental rules of physics.
Particle Accelerators and Detectors
Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb), Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS), Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE), and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) are the principal detectors employed. The discovery of the Higgs Boson, or the so-called ‘God Particle,’ which was expelled from a disruption in the Higgs Field, brought the international organization prominence.
CERN’s most significant innovation value is in extremes (extreme cold and extreme speed) since it contains the world’s largest and most energetic particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was introduced colder than space in 2009. Its cryogenic systems chill over 1000 magnets on the LHC to near-absolute zero temperatures, where matter takes on unique characteristics. No particle physics laboratory of this scale has ever performed so well at such low temperatures.