Category: Accelerators
-
Accelerator Report: 10 000 LHC fills!
The LHC reached its 10 000th fill on 13 August 2024
-
Accelerator Report: Navigating hot summer days and thunderstorms
The summer is often a very productive period for physics in CERN’s accelerator complex, that is, when the weather remains reasonable…
-
Accelerator Report: No summer holidays for the accelerator complex
CERN’s accelerators show very good availability rates: beams are in place
-
Accelerator Report: Technical stops always hold a few surprises
Restarting the entire accelerator complex after a technical stop is rarely seamless and often comes with unexpected technical challenges
-
New beam dumps: cut along the dotted line
Dismantling a beam dump is a real conundrum – that’s what the 2020 “autopsy” concluded. To solve it, the new spare LHC beam dumps have been made easier to “cut”
-
Accelerator Report: Setting the stage for a productive summer
We are optimistic that we will have a successful luminosity production period this summer
-
Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases
The LHC injector chain has been switched to a new beam production scheme to explore its potential to produce more collisions in the LHC and to compare its performance to that of the standard LHC beam
-
HiLumi News: The HL-LHC’s cold powering system successfully passed the tests
The new HL-LHC cold powering system, which includes the high-temperature superconducting link colloquially known as “the python”, has successfully passed its first cold powering tests
-
Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there
The LHC is performing well and the injector complex is treating its experimental users to a high level of beam availability
-
Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges
In the last two weeks, the LHC teams have encountered two main challenges that have led to some changes to the filling scheme