19K views · 270 shares | Linac 4 has taken over from the retired Linac 2 as the first accelerator in the LHC injection chain! It has reached its first milestone to inject particles at an energy of 160 MeV and will contribute to an #LHC luminosity increase by 2021. Read more: https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-celebrates-completion-linac-4-its-brand-new-linear-particle | CERN | Facebook

18K views · 482 reactions | Make the most of the sunny days and set out to discover a giant of science, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. The LHC is the world’s largest particle accelerator. Its 27 km ring is situated a hundred metres below the Franco-Genevan countryside. Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/fancy-cycling-around-particle-accelerator | CERN | Facebook

22K views · 897 reactions |  Celebrating 30 years of a giant LEP for humankind! On this day thirty years ago, the Large Electron–Positron collider (LEP) saw its first collisions. Designed to study the recently discovered W and Z bosons, and to look for signs of the Higgs boson, it was a remarkable machine in many ways. Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/celebrating-30-years-giant-lep-humankind | CERN | Facebook