LHC@home

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LHC@home is a volunteer distributed computing project that needs your help to advance Particle and Accelerator Physics.

LHC@home SixTrack 4.67 Screensaver
LHC@home SixTrack 4.67 Screensaver

Wikipedia page

LHC@home

Goal

  • Help build and maintain The Large Hadron Collider
  • Enable physicists to compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and provide answers to questions about the Universe.

Methods

  • The classic LHC@home application Sixtrack, are simulations of accelerator physics, and help researchers at CERN to build and improve the LHC.

Other LHC@home simulations that utilize virtualization to run applications for Theory and experiment simulations

Project team / Sponsors

CERN

Scientific publications

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home