The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
- Written by Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Particle Physicist working at CERN on the ATLAS experiment, Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA
When you push “start” on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on – but major physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, don’t work that way....