Author: Rende Steerenberg
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CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break
A new physics run is about to begin! The first particle beams should reach the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 11 March
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Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break
The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!
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Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit
The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024
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Accelerator Report: Ending the 2023 run with a quench
Another few days and the last 2023 LHC beams will be dumped, hopefully by the machine protection system following a controlled magnet quench
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Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)
Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user
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Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success
On Thursday, 28 September, at 8.00 a.m., as planned, the Operations team at the SPS stopped producing proton beams for the experiments in the SPS North Area (NA). Instead, they switched over to lead-ion beams, in preparation for a month-long physics run that begins on Monday, 2 October, and will continue until 6.00 a.m. on
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Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics
In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments
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Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions
The LHC resumes beam production, following the repair of the inner triplet vacuum leak, and gears up for heavy ion collisions
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Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences
On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation
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Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC
On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced