About CERN

Computing

Experiments at CERN generate colossal amounts of data. The Data Centre stores it, and sends it around the world for analysis

There are 10 times more engineers and technicians at CERN than research physicists. Why?

A range of experiments at CERN investigate physics from cosmic rays to supersymmetry

The research programme at CERN covers topics from kaons to cosmic rays, and from the Standard Model to supersymmety

The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionize communications worldwide

There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light

How CERN is governed and organized; its council, member states, and departments

Just as hunters can identify animals from tracks in mud or snow, physicists identify subatomic particles from the traces they leave in detectors

Electric fields and radiofrequency cavities accelerate particles inside accelerators, while powerful magnets focus or steer the particle beams

CERN is run by 20 European member states, but many non-European countries are also involved in different ways

What is the universe made of? How did it start? Physicists at CERN are seeking answers, using some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators