Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider and largest machine on Earth in 2020. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries.

The aim of the LHC's detectors was to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics, including measuring the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetric theories, as well as other unsolved questions of physics.

Protons in the LHC are accelerated at 1012 m/s2 whereas Planck acceleration at the scale of 1051 m/s2 is required to create conditions found in the Big Bang.