Category: Accelerators

  • Beams are back in the LHC for the final year of Run II

    Beams were circulating in the LHC by 30 March (five days in advance!), and everything is looking good for a strong final year of LHC Run II.

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  • First LHC test collisions of 2018

    First LHC test collisions of 2018

    The Large Hadron Collider has initiated the collision of proton beams for the first time this year

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  • Preparing for the last year of LHC Run 2

    This year’s LHC performance workshop took place in Chamonix from 29 January to 1 February.

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  • Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on

    Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on

    The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC

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  • A brand new linear accelerator for CERN

    A brand new linear accelerator for CERN

    At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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  • A great year ahead

    Fabiola Gianotti looks back at a remarkable 2016 and looks towards CERN’s challenges in 2017

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  • Meet TIM, the LHC tunnel’s robot

    Meet TIM, the LHC tunnel’s robot

    The Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) is equipped with a camera and several measurement sensors to monitor the LHC tunnel in real-time

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  • Linac 4 reached its energy goal

    Linac 4 reached its energy goal

    After having accelerated a beam up to the design energy of 160 MeV, Linac 4 is now entering a new phase of its commissioning

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  • Great progress across the board

    The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones

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  • LHC smashes targets for 2016 run

    The target for the LHC integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40.

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