Category: Accelerators

  • Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there

    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

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  • Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges

    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

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  • 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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