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Important information: High heeled shoes, open shoes, flip-flops and sandals are not permitted.
All visitors on guided tours must carry their identity card or passport, which must be valid for entry into both France and Switzerland |
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Science Gateway
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Science Gateway is CERN's new flagship centre for science education and outreach. Through immersive exhibitions and hands-on activities in laboratories, it will allow us to reach people of all backgrounds as of five years old, engage more with the local population and attract the young generation to careers in STEM. In addition, a 900 seat auditorium will host public talks, science shows, films, CERN events and much more. The Globe of Science and Innovation, as well as IdeaSquare will be now part of the Science Gateway Campus. |
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CMS Underground Facility
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design. The CMS detector is built around a huge solenoid magnet. This takes the form of a cylindrical coil of superconducting cable that generates a field of four tesla, about 100,000 times the magnetic field of the Earth. The field is confined by a steel "yoke" that forms the bulk of the detector's 14,000 tonne weight. The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, involving about 5500 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 241 institutes in 54 countries (May 2022). |
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