Category: Accelerators
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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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HiLumi News: Recombination dipole prototype successfully tested for the LHC’s high-luminosity upgrade
The D2 prototype magnet, developed and manufactured in Italy, has been integrated and tested in the longest HL-LHC cold mass with corrector magnets from China and CERN
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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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HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets
The many CERN-developed sensors and software programs of the FRAS (Full Remote Alignment System) have been successfully tested on a prototype magnet in preparation for the HL-LHC
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The LHC leak repair: a short photostory
Scroll through the photo diary to relive the repair of the LHC
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Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress
Despite challenging working conditions, the vacuum leak caused by the quench that occurred on 17 July was repaired in less than 10 days
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AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles
Plasma accelerator AWAKE has tested scalability and is all set to begin its second phase of data taking with an upgraded plasma source