Open day at CERN
6 April 2008 - 6 April 2008
Switzerland
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, will open its doors to the public on 6 April.
Visitors will have a chance to visit CERN's newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. It is the largest and most complex in the world, installed in a 27 kilometre tunnel, 100 metres underground in the Swiss canton of Geneva and neighbouring France.
CERN will open all access points around the ring for visits underground, to the tunnel and the experiment caverns. On the surface, a wide-ranging programme will be on offer, allowing visitors to learn about the physics for which this huge instrument is being installed, the technology underlying it, and applications in other fields.For further information, please visit:
www.cern.ch/lhc2008
Visitors will have a chance to visit CERN's newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), before it goes into operation later this year. It is the largest and most complex in the world, installed in a 27 kilometre tunnel, 100 metres underground in the Swiss canton of Geneva and neighbouring France.
CERN will open all access points around the ring for visits underground, to the tunnel and the experiment caverns. On the surface, a wide-ranging programme will be on offer, allowing visitors to learn about the physics for which this huge instrument is being installed, the technology underlying it, and applications in other fields.For further information, please visit:
www.cern.ch/lhc2008