Visit to CERN, Geneva

Our Year 12 Physics students experienced an amazing visit to CERN, the site of the Large Hadron Collider. They also had a sightseeing tour of Geneva, visiting the UN Office at the Place of Nations. At CERN, they probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us. They do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments. In 2012 physicists found evidence for the most elusive fundamental particle, the Higg’s Boson Experiments and they continue to probe the secrets of particle physics and the origins of our Universe.  On this visit, the students found out what is involved in this research and how the experiments are being developed, as well as gaining an insight into what it is like to work in a multinational collaborative experiment of this scale.