14K views · 707 reactions | On 24 November 1959, CERN’s Proton Synchrotron became the highest-energy machine in the world when it accelerated a beam to its design energy of 24 GeV for the first time. Today, the Proton Synchrotron is still in operation, being one of the main cogs in the CERN accelerator complex. Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/celebrating-60-years-proton-synchrotron | CERN | Facebook

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has recently finalised the upgrading of one of the experiment’s sub-detectors, called the Small Muon Wheel (in spite of its 10m size, which is nothing but small!). In this teaser, announcing a live event featuring the detector, the new Small Muon Wheel is seen at the LHC surface hall, being finalised before being lowered 100 metres underground. Find out more: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/live-atlas-experiment | CERN