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### European Laboratory for Particle PhysicsTechnology from CERN to society### Visit CERNTour the accelerator complex## Accelerating science## HiLumi LHCThe High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will increase by a factor of ten the number of particle collisions (called “luminosity”), vastly increasing the volume of physics data available for researchers.This leap forward will allow physicists to explore the behaviour of the Higgs boson and other elementary particles with unprecedented precision, increasing the potential for discoveries after 2030.## Future Circular ColliderThe Future Circular Collider could be Europe’s next-generation particle collider: a unique tool to explore the deepest mysteries of the Universe and to drive technology, innovation and skills for decades to come.This new collider would help answer many questions about nature’s rulebook that lie beyond the reach of current colliders.## Key achievements## Higgs boson Discovered in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Higgs boson confirms the Higgs mechanism, which explains how elementary particles acquire mass through interaction with the Higgs field.## Large Hadron Collider The 27-kilometre LHC, the world’s largest particle accelerator, first started in 2008. It collides protons or lead ions at energies approaching the speed of light.## Antimatter CERN operates the world’s only dedicated antimatter facility, producing the first anti-atoms in 1995 and later trapping and transportingantimatter.## Birth of the Web In 1989, CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web to enable efficient sharing of research data among scientists around the globe.## Neutral currents Observed at CERN in 1973,via the Gargamelle bubble chamber, andprovided the first evidence of the weak neutral force.