Author: Mike Lamont
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What like a beam can undeceive! (*With apologies to Herman Melville)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently completed a two-week beam test following a lengthy post-Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) campaign of hardware commissioning, magnet circuit powering tests and dipole training. The dipole training was not without issues. Two separate quench-induced faults made it necessary to warm up two sectors: one for a magnet exchange (sector
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The future of CERN’s accelerators and technology in an intriguing physics landscape
On the accelerator and technology front, our core missions for the next few years have been mapped out in the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Some are a continuation of established business: effective exploitation of our existing facilities and deployment of the ongoing HL-LHC upgrade. Another key focus is the extension
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CERN’s accelerators at the dawn of a new mandate
With a challenging Long Shutdown 2 coming to an end, the Accelerators and Technology sector stands ready to build CERN’s future