Category: Accelerators

  • Kicking off

    Kicking off

    Following the installation of kicker magnets that are more heat resistant and their successful tests during the SPS scrubbing run, the SPS is getting ready for High-Luminosity LHC operation.

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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  • Accelerator Report: Preparing for the upcoming LHC restart

    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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  • HiLumi News: New CERN niobium–tin magnet energises the HL-LHC programme

    HiLumi News: New CERN niobium–tin magnet energises the HL-LHC programme

    A second 7.2-metre-long HL-LHC triplet quadrupole has reached the currents needed for 7 TeV operation, with higher performances

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  • Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3

    Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3

    A High-Luminosity LHC instrument known as the Beam Gas Curtain will be tested and start collecting data during Run 3

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  • Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3

    Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3

    A High-Luminosity LHC instrument known as the Beam Gas Curtain will be tested and start collecting data during Run 3

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  • Accelerator Report: The CERN accelerator complex is awakening from hibernation

    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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  • Feasibility Study for a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC) gets under way on the ground

    Feasibility Study for a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC) gets under way on the ground

    The first phase involves a major geographical, geological and environmental data-gathering effort

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  • Take part in the new seminar series on future colliders

    Take part in the new seminar series on future colliders

    CERN’s Future Colliders unit launches a new seminar series to present the different future collider projects being studied to the broader CERN community

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