Category: Accelerators

  • Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

    Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

    Almost the whole accelerator complex is now in “physics mode”, routinely delivering the various types of beam to the different physics facilities and experiments. Notably, the intensity ramp-up in the LHC is progressing remarkably well

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  • Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024

    Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024

    This marks the beginning of physics for the third year of Run 3 of CERN’s flagship particle accelerator

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  • Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024

    Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024

    This marks the beginning of physics for the third year of Run 3 of CERN’s flagship particle accelerator

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  • Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

    Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

    Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved

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  • Observing accelerator resonances in 4D

    Observing accelerator resonances in 4D

    For the first time, scientists at CERN, in collaboration with scientists at GSI, have been able to measure a coupled resonance structure that may cause particle loss in accelerators

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  • Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC

    On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC, kicking off the 2024 LHC beam commissioning

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  • You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

    You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

    Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

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  • Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

    Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

    The injection of the first protons into the LHC is scheduled for 11 March, but could be brought forward by a few days if all goes well

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  • CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break

    CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break

    A new physics run is about to begin! The first particle beams should reach the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 11 March

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  • Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

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