Largest particle accelerator
The current largest particle accelerator record is 16.6 miles, held by Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Last checked October 14, 2026.
16.6
miles
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- Holder
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- Record
- 16.6 miles
- Metric
- 26.66 km
- Exact figure
- 26,659 m (approximately 27 km)
- Location
- CERN, on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland
- Recognized by
- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research
- Last checked
- October 14, 2026
Sources
- home.cern Large hadron collider
- home.cern Read the source
- cern.ch Read the source
- space.com Large hadron collider particle accelerator
- wikipedia.org Read the source
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