
A giant magnet weighing 1920 tonnes at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland

A woman walking near the world's la 111h723b rgest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS), at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is part of five experiments which, from mid 2008 on, will study what happens when beams of particles collide in the 27 km (16.8 miles) long underground ring LHC

The last element, weighing 100 tonnes, of the ATLAS experiment is lowered into the cave at the CERN

CERN scientists work at the LHC control center

LHC project leader Lyn Evans, of Britain, at the control center of the CERN

The Grid PC farm at the CERN Computer Centre, where banks of computers process and store data produced on the CERN systems

LHC, the world's largest
atom smasher, 100 metres
(325 feet) below ground in

Graphic illustration of the LHC

How CERN's Large Hadron Collider works
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