Category: Accelerators

  • CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider

    CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider

    At its half-way mark, a study investigating the feasibility of a 91-kilometre Future Circular Collider to potentially follow the Large Hadron Collider at CERN shows significant progress

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  • Chamonix: building on success, planning for the future

    Highlights from this year’s Chamonix workshop, including the crucial role that the injectors play in shaping future research endeavours

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  • HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator

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  • HiLumi News: cool kickers for the HL-LHC

    HiLumi News: cool kickers for the HL-LHC

    Successful tests of the first “MKI-Cool” show that these new kicker magnets can take the heat and keep their cool with high-luminosity beams

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  • Hi-Lumi News: First magnet from the US Accelerator Upgrade Project shipped to CERN

    Hi-Lumi News: First magnet from the US Accelerator Upgrade Project shipped to CERN

    Watch a timelapse of the unboxing of the first of ten cryo-assemblies from the US to be installed in the HL-LHC interaction regions

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  • Looking back on an eventful year for accelerators

    Accelerator highlights, challenges and successes in 2023

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  • HiLumi News: Successful test paves the way for magnet production at CERN

    HiLumi News: Successful test paves the way for magnet production at CERN

    Engineers have successfully tested an improved design of a quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN, confirming that niobium–tin technology is viable for accelerator magnets

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  • Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

    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

    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)

    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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