IU physicists help upgrade world’s largest particle accelerator
Indiana University physicists are contributing to a major three-year upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The project aims to increase the intensity of proton beams and significantly expand the detector's readout capabilities to advance fundamental physics research.
Why it matters
Upgrading the world's most powerful particle accelerator is essential for discovering new subatomic particles and deepening our understanding of the universe's fundamental laws.
Twitter LinkedIn Email CERN The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider is shutdown for upgrades, and will remain so for the next three and a half years. If all goes according to plan, the machine will start taking data again in summer 2030. Indiana University physicists are working on the upgrade of the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Hal Evans, IU professor of physics, is the deputy project manager overseeing the U.S. $300 million share of the upgrade.
The Collider is operated by CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Physics. It propels protons or ions to near the speed of light, so that two high energy particle beams can collide. It is used to advance knowledge of the foundation of physics.
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