Inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
High-energy particle accelerators are helping researchers investigate big questions about the nature of matter and the origins of the universe. Typical experiments involve carefully controlled collisions between either intersecting particle beams or a particle beam and an atomic-scale target.
Creating collisions at nanometer scale with picoseconds of duration requires extreme precision in spatial and temporal control.
At facilities such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, and the Australian Synchrotron, high-performance digitizers are helping researchers achieve the precision and control needed to perform more and better experiments in less time.
