32K views · 2.2K reactions |  Discover CERN in Virtual Reality with...

The LHC tunnel and that of its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC, are now connected. This week, the civil engineering companies made the junction between the underground facilities at Points 1 and 5 of the accelerator. Lucio Rossi, Leader of the HL-LHC project, Frédérick Bordry, Director for Accelerators and Technology, Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, and Oliver Brüning, Deputy Leader of the HL-LHC project, met this morning in the LHC tunnel to celebrate the breakthrough. Find out more

7.3K views · 419 reactions | A new CERN facility is born ️ The final civil engineering works at Point 1 of the High-Luminosity LHC have been completed. The new facility, along with its sibling at Point 5, will house the cutting-edge equipment needed to sustain the ten-fold increase in integrated luminosity promised by the HL-LHC project. #HiLumiLHC Find out more: https://home.cern/news/completion-final-civil-engineering-works-hl-lhc-point-1-new-cern-facility-born | CERN | Facebook

26K views · 302 reactions | CERN is upgrading the Large Hadron Collider to make even more amazing discoveries. | Interesting Engineering | Facebook