IFL Science
Dr. Alfredo Carpineti
July 2, 2026
On June 29, after almost 18 years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was shut down in its current iteration for the last time. When the particle collisions start again in several years, they won’t be happening in the particle accelerator that we know and love, but in its newly upgraded version: the High Luminosity LHC, or more simply, HiLumi.