Compact Muon Solenoid, France

The CERN research organization is the center of several unique research complexes and detectors. It is located in Geneva. One of the most important, expensive, and unique detectors in the world is located on its territory. This is a Compact Muon Solenoid. The research center occupies a large territory even though it is based in Switzerland. This territory extends beyond the country's borders. A special experimental hall was built for the Compact Muon Solenoid near the village of Cessy in France to house it.

More than 3,500 people worked on the equipment of this laboratory. Leading experts from 183 well-known laboratories and universities located in various countries of the world were among them. The main task of a complex detector is to search for the Higgs boson. This is an elementary particle that plays a key role in the study of dark matter. The construction of the detector itself began in 1998. It took four years to equip an underground cavity for it. It was fully completed in 2004.

A distinctive feature of this outstanding detector is also the possibility of visual computer simulation of the studied processes. The Compact Muon Solenoid has an impressive size. Its length is 25 meters. It reaches 15 meters in diameter. The weight of the detector is also impressive. It is about 15,000 tons. The main feature of the detector design is a superconducting magnet built into it. It is the largest that has ever existed in the world. Next - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory