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The '''Large Hadron Collider''' (LHC) is a [[particle accelerator]], with a circumference of 27 km, located at the [[CERN]] facility which straddles the border of France and Switzerland.<ref name=cern>{{cite web|url=https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider|title=The Large Hadron Collider|accessdate=2018-12-20}}</ref> Built over 15 years at a cost of $9 billion, it is the largest and most ambitious piece of machinery ever conceived and built by man.
[[File:CERN Aerial View.jpg|thumb|alt=Bird's eye view of The Large hadron collider.|right|205px|Bird's eye view of The Large hadron collider.]]
The '''Large Hadron Collider''' (LHC) is a [[particle accelerator]], with a circumference of 27 km, located at the [[CERN]] facility which straddles the border of [[France]] and [[Switzerland]].<ref name=cern>{{cite web|url=https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider|title=The Large Hadron Collider|accessdate=2018-12-20}}</ref> Built over 15 years at a cost of $9 billion, it is the largest and most ambitious piece of machinery ever conceived and built by man.
==Design==
==Design==
[[File:Installing_the_ATLAS_Calorimeter.jpg|thumb|alt=The ATLAS detector.|right|205px|The ATLAS detector.]]
The LHC has four giant detectors (named ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE) designed to probe new dimensions, search for the [[Higgs Boson]] (the so-called "God Particle", which gives matter and other [[boson]]s mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the [[universe]] might have been like immediately after the [[Big Bang]] (assuming it actually happened).
The LHC has four giant detectors (named ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE) designed to probe new dimensions, search for the [[Higgs Boson]] (the so-called "God Particle", which gives matter and other [[boson]]s mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the [[universe]] might have been like immediately after the [[Big Bang]] (assuming it actually happened).