Category: Accelerators

  • 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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  • 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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