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KYOCERA’s Vacuum Chambers Play Key Role in CERN Large Hadron Collider


Kyoto/ Neuss - Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) today announced that its custom-designed ceramic vacuum chambers are being used in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Physics (CERN) near Geneva. In the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken, protons fed into the LHC through Kyocera’s ceramic vacuum chambers quickly reach speeds of up to 299,792 km per second – just below the speed of light – in the world's largest particle accelerator.



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