Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

The 27-km LHC has eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire. (Image: CERN) What if the world’s largest particle accelerator ...

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

This session will be held in person at CERN and online via Zoom. The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences invites researchers, engineers and postdoctoral fellows ...