Category: Accelerators

  • Superconductivity for sustainability: a new superconducting link for the High-Luminosity LHC

    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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  • News from the Chamonix workshop

    The first Chamonix workshop, dedicated to LEP performance, took place in 1991 – we’ve come a long way since then!

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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

    LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

    Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex

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  • An encouraging start for Run 3

    In challenging times, it’s reassuring to see CERN’s accelerator complex fully up and running again, with physics being delivered to the experiments at ISOLDE and HIE-ISOLDE, n_TOF, AD-ELENA, the East Area, the North Area, AWAKE, HiRadMat, CLEAR and, of course, the LHC – the current temporary unscheduled stop notwithstanding – and great work being done

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  • HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

    HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

    A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

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  • Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

    Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

    For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams

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  • What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?

    What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?

    A new experiment has been performed at the HiRadMat facility to test various materials that could be used in the LHC and HL-LHC beam dumps

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