The Large Hadron Collider is reset and refreshed every year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic jumps to restart experiments
When you press “start” on your microwave or computer, it immediately powers on—but that’s not how big physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Instead, engineers and physicists must set aside a few weeks each year to carefully reset the collider and all the experiments… Read More »