Detail of a high-tech superconducting cable used to bring current to the LHC magnets

CERN's high-tech tools

Building powerful accelerators

Why?

Because high energy particle collisions are the only mean to recreate the conditions existing a few moments after the Big Bang. This allows us to study how our Universe evolved and how it works today. Particle accelerators allow us to look into the inner constituents of matter where a goldmine of open questions is still hidden. Questions that we try to answer...