RIKEN is Japan's largest comprehensive research institution renowned for high-quality research in a diverse range of scientific disciplines. Founded in 1917 as a private research foundation in Tokyo, RIKEN has grown rapidly in size and scope, today encompassing a network of world-class research centers and institutes across Japan.

The Institut Laue-Langevin is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology.

As the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the ILL provides scientists with a very high flux of neutrons feeding some 40 state-of-the-art instruments, which are constantly being developed and upgraded.

At CERN, we probe the fundamental structure of the particles that make up everything around us.
We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments.