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Resources for journalists for events in 2022: the 10 years of the Higgs boson discovery, LHC Run 3 and restart

2022: Higgs10, LHC Run 3 and restart

The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), restarted on 22 April 2022 after more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work.

The restart marked the beginning of preparations for the third run of the LHC, called Run 3, which plans four years of physics-data taking at a world-record collision energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts (13.6 TeV).

Run 3 began on 5 July, the day after #Higgs10, the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Resources for journalists for these key milestones are added below.

Higgs10

The Higgs boson

Background information

What is special about the Higgs boson?

Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director General

Which questions could the Higgs boson answer?

Tiann-Tevong You, theoretical physicist

Why continue studying the Higgs boson?

Andreas Hoecker, ATLAS experiment spokesperson

What can Run 3 bring to Higgs measurements?

Luca Malgeri, CMS experiment spokesperson video image

Higgs boson image gallery

LHC Run 3

LHC Run 3

Background information

The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

Background information

What is CERN going to do during Run 3?

Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General

What do we call a "run" at the LHC?

Rende Steerenberg, Head of the Operations Group in the Beams Department

What's new about Run 3 of the LHC?

Mike Lamont, Director for Accelerators and Technology

Pourquoi le Run 3 est important pour le LHC ?

Malika Meddahi, Deputy Director for Accelerators and Technology

What does ALICE expect from Run 3?

Luciano Musa, ALICE experiment spokesperson

What does ATLAS expect from Run 3?

Andreas Hoecker, ATLAS experiment spokesperson

What does CMS expect from Run 3?

Luca Malgeri, CMS experiment Spokesperson

What does LHCb expect from Run 3?

Chris Parkes, LHCb experiment spokesperson

What are your physics expectations for Run 3?

Sophie Renner, theoretical physicist at CERN

Which results do you expect from Run 3?

Michelangelo Mangano, theoretical physicist at CERN LHC restart

Large Hadron Collider restarts

Media update 22 April, 2022

Accelerator upgrades during LS2

Background information

LHC upgrades during LS2

Background information

ALICE upgrades during LS2

Background information

ATLAS upgrades during LS2

Background information

CMS upgrades during LS2

Background information

LHCb upgrades during LS2

Background information