The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the research institution that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

İstinye University has been accepted as a full member of the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory and scientific discovery center.

“What we do is try to understand the smallest—the subatomic—in order to comprehend the universe.”
– Prof. Dr. Serkant Ali Çetin, Head of the Basic Sciences Department at İstinye University

ATLAS is one of the two detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It explores a wide range of physics, from the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could constitute dark matter.