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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
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
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
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