Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On June 11 at 5 pm CEST, join scientists from the Large Hadron Collider in the CERN Control Centre while this remarkable machine delivers its last collisions to its four large experiments. In conversations with Head of LHC Operations Bettina Mikulec, Director for Accelerators Oliver Brüning and Director for Research and Computing Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, host Davide De Biasio will guide you through the legendary journey of the most powerful particle collider in the world, today on the threshold of a new transformation. Physicists from ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE will join from their experiments’ control rooms to share the highlights of the last four years of physics and the challenges of the transition to the High Luminosity phase, when they will have to process an enormous volume of data for a new era of physics discoveries.
00:00 Opening
00:32 Introduction
04:17 Video: LHC milestones
07:34 The LHC didn't appear overnight
14:31 Video: LHC injector upgrade
18:19 Performance and discovery Part 1
24:00 Connection with ATLAS Control Room
27:45 Connection with CMS Control Room
33:19 Connection with ALICE Control Room
37:25 Connection with LHCb Control Room
41:42 Performance and discovery Part 2
47:08 Video: Luminosity explained
51:34 The future
1:05:23 Video: HiLumi teaser
On June 11 at 5 pm CEST, join scientists from the Large Hadron Collider in the CERN Control Centre while this remarkable machine delivers its last collisions to its four large experiments. In conversations with Head of LHC Operations Bettina Mikulec, Director for Accelerators Oliver Brüning and Director for Research and Computing Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, host Davide De Biasio will guide you through the legendary journey of the most powerful particle collider in the world, today on the threshold of a new transformation. Physicists from ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE will join from their experiments’ control rooms to share the highlights of the last four years of physics and the challenges of the transition to the High Luminosity phase, when they will have to process an enormous volume of data for a new era of physics discoveries.
00:00 Opening
00:32 Introduction
04:17 Video: LHC milestones
07:34 The LHC didn't appear overnight
14:31 Video: LHC injector upgrade
18:19 Performance and discovery Part 1
24:00 Connection with ATLAS Control Room
27:45 Connection with CMS Control Room
33:19 Connection with ALICE Control Room
37:25 Connection with LHCb Control Room
41:42 Performance and discovery Part 2
47:08 Video: Luminosity explained
51:34 The future
1:05:23 Video: HiLumi teaser
