Intersecting Storage Rings

The Intersecting Storage Rings is a former particle accelerator at CERN. It was the world's first hadron collider.

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CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built

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At CERN
29 May, 2024

Looking back on 50 years of hadron colliders

This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built

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Accelerators
26 January, 2021
Accelerators
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26 January, 2021

Today in 1971: First proton-proton collisions

On 27 January 1971 beams of protons collided in the Intersecting Storage Rings for the first time

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At CERN
27 January, 2014