Category: Accelerators
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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
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
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
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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Superconductivity for sustainability: a new superconducting link for the High-Luminosity LHC
A flexible cryostat and the first series of high-temperature superconducting magnesium diboride cables will form an innovative electrical transfer line to power the HL-LHC inner triplet magnets
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Feasibility Study for a possible FCC gets under way on the ground
Feasibility Study for a possible FCC gets under way on the ground
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Cool kickers for the HL-LHC
The first “MKI-Cool” was installed in early January – water-cooled ferrite cylinders will protect the LHC’s kicker magnets from increased heat load in the high-luminosity era
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HiLumi News: 7.2-m-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN reaches nominal current for the first time
The 7.2-metre-long version of this vital HL-LHC component reached nominal current plus an operational margin corresponding to a coil peak field of 11.5 T at 1.9 K during a test in SM18
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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