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It was built with funds from, and is administered by, CERN, which is a French acronym for Couseil Europeen pour la Reserche Nucleaire. The English translation is "European Council for Nuclear Research."

The organization is now called the European Organization for Nuclear Research, but the original acronym has stuck.

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