Author: Anaïs Schaeffer
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The Technical Galleries Consolidation Project is progressing well
5 km of technical galleries have been scanned and half of them 3D-modelled, and the work to renovate and replace their technical infrastructure is in full swing
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Take part in the new seminar series on future colliders
CERN’s Future Colliders unit launches a new seminar series to present the different future collider projects being studied to the broader CERN community
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The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era
SM18 is one of the largest magnet test facilities in the world. Dedicated to testing superconducting magnets and radiofrequency cavities, it is now waiting for the first HL-LHC components
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Science Gateway: the first trees for the forest have arrived
Forty-five large trees have been delivered to CERN this month. More than 400 trees will ultimately make up the Science Gateway forest
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Autopsy of an LHC beam dump
For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams
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What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?
A new experiment has been performed at the HiRadMat facility to test various materials that could be used in the LHC and HL-LHC beam dumps
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The SPS beam dump
On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump
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7th Geneva Engage Awards honour Indico event platform
The open-source tool Indico, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has won CERN the “special award for effective and innovative online meetings”