Category: Accelerators
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ElQA: ensuring electrical integrity in the LHC
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Exceptional transport operations to make way for HiLumi LHC
We often hear about the remarkable components of the accelerators, but transporting this equipment sometimes requires measures that are just as impressive. Over the course of the third long shutdown (LS3), which started this summer, entire sections of the Large Hadron Collider and its detectors will be dismantled in order to make room for the
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All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi
CERN’s injector complex and Antimatter Factory took their final steps towards Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) this morning, as the last particle beams were extracted and the machines fell silent. This milestone follows the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in June, which marked the beginning of LS3 for the Laboratory’s flagship accelerator. While the
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Accelerator Report: Final countdown – CERN’s injector complex enters its last stretch before LS3
The LHC has already fallen silent for Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), but elsewhere across CERN’s accelerator complex the pace remains intense. With just a week and a half of beam operation remaining, the countdown has begun for all the machines, which will switch off their beams at 6.00 a.m. on Monday, 31 August, marking the
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Accelerator Report: Beyond the LHC – CERN’s Beams Keep Science Moving
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have entered Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), but across the rest of CERN’s accelerator complex operations remain as busy as ever. The LHC injector chain continues to provide proton beams for a broad range of users, including the ELENA antiproton community, the East and North Area experiments and the n_TOF
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New Faraday cages for HiLumi sensitive electronics
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HiLumi LHC: new magnets reach full power
The test bench for the High-Luminosity LHC, the IT (Inner Triplet) String facility, has reached a major milestone. On 8 July, its new quadrupole magnets – known as the inner triplet magnets – successfully reached their nominal operating current of 16 230 amperes. Designed to focus the beams more tightly than ever before, thereby increasing the
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Reading the layers beneath Lake Geneva
Understanding what lies beneath the surface is essential to assessing any major underground infrastructure project. For the placement studies for the proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC), this means developing the most accurate possible picture of the geological formations along the proposed tunnel route, including beneath Lake Geneva. Investigations on the lake began in 2025 with
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Delivering power to the HiLumi magnets
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Accelerator Report: Pushing the LHC towards HiLumi LHC conditions… and cut!
The final weeks of Run 3 for the LHC have been among the busiest of its entire operational period. With physics production successfully completed on 14 June, the machine entered a two-week programme dedicated to studies with high-intensity beams, followed by a quench campaign. These activities were scheduled after the completion of the physics programme