Category: Accelerators

  • 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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  • The HL-LHC: a bright vision

    Pushing the boundaries of current technology to extend the discovery potential of the LHC

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  • A great start for the whole CERN accelerator chain

    With physics data-taking under way this week at the LHC, I’d like to take a look at what’s been happening at the rest of the CERN accelerator chain.

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  • First year of data taking at high energy for MoEDAL

    First year of data taking at high energy for MoEDAL

    In this week’s Bulletin find out the MoEDAL’s physics programme

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  • Report from Council

    This week’s Council meeting was dominated by discussions about the long-term, sustainable future of CERN

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  • Important milestones for the LHC and for integrity

    The major news this week is, of course, the start of LHC Run 2

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  • The slings and arrows of LHC restart schedules

    Against a backdrop of great progress in the powering tests for running at 6.5 TeV, a short cicuit is causing a delay, writes Rolf Heuer

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