CERN, LHC och ATLAS
CERN is the leading international laboratory for research in particle physics, located in Switzerland. Since its inception in 1954, CERN has been a central infrastructure for Uppsala University in subatomic research and accelerator development. Today, Uppsala focuses on experimental measurements with the ATLAS detector and the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The research done in Uppsala covers the study of the Higgs boson, physics that can explain the absence of antimatter in the universe, and searches for new elementary particles that may, for example, constitute the dark matter observed in the universe. In addition to physics studies, the researchers develop instrumentation for the experiments and participate in their operation.
Accelerator research revolves around the development of more efficient technologies for accelerating (supplying kinetic energy) to particles and of strong magnets to control them. Research and development has been carried out for the Compact Linear Collider and the LHC accelerators, among others. Work is ongoing to design experiments and accelerator technology for CERN's future flagship project, the Future Circular Collider, which will have a circumference of 100 km and be operational around 2040.
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- Elin Bergeås Kuutmann
- Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy