Large Hadron Collider

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator, with a circumference of 27km, located at the CERN facility which straddles the border of France and Switzerland. Built over 15 years at a cost of $9 billion, it is the largest and most ambitious piece of machinery ever conceived and built by man.



The LHC has four giant detectors designed to probe new dimensions, search for the Higgs Boson (the so called "God Particle", which gives matter and other bosons mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the universe might have been like immediately after the Big Bang (assuming it actually happened).




The LHC survived legal and political challenges. Legal challenges revolve around the possibility it could open a microscopic black hole that would swallow the Earth. However scientists have effectively ruled out this scenario, pointing out - among other things - that such particle collisions take place quite often naturally.[2][3] The LHC seeks to prove or disprove other important concepts and theories, including supersymmetry, antimatter, as well as confirming the existence of many leptons, such as the muon and gluon.



  1. See "Giant Particle Collider Fizzles," Dennis Overbye New York Times Aug. 3, 2009
  2. Steven B. Giddings, Michelangelo M. Mangano: "Astrophysical implications of hypothetical stable TeV-scale black holes"
  3. Benjamin Koch, Marcus Bleicher, Horst Stoecker: "Exclusion of black hole disaster scenarios at the LHC"

External Links

LHC Homepage at CERN.

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