Author: Rende Steerenberg
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Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing
On Monday, 19 June, LHC operation was paused for one week to allow the technical teams to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance on the machine and its subsystems
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Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance
The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring
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Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC
On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam
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Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…
The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June
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Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV
Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023
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Accelerator Report: Beam is back in the LHC
On Wednesday 22 March, the LHC machine, the injection beam lines and all the experiments were closed for the cold check-out of the LHC, an important phase in the commissioning that follows the hardware tests and is a prerequisite for injecting beam into the machine. During this phase, all safety and interlock systems are activated
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Accelerator Report: Preparing for the upcoming LHC restart
With the progressive recommissioning of the injectors – including, now, the SPS – the various types of beam are being set up and are gradually reaching the downstream accelerators
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Accelerator Report: The CERN accelerator complex is awakening from hibernation
The last LHC beam of 2022 was dumped in the early morning of Monday, 28 November; 17 weeks later, on Monday, 27 March 2023, we plan to inject the first beam of the year into the LHC
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LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped
Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex
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LHC Report: Standing strong through the storms
As I write this report, the integrated luminosity counter for ATLAS and CMS is at 23.1 fb-1, exceeding our goal of around 18 fb-1