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A brand-new beam screen to cope with high luminosity

The beam screen for the High-Luminosity LHC will be installed by 2024 in the aperture of the inner triplet superconducting magnets near ATLAS and CMS

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Accelerators
11 December, 2018
Accelerators
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11 December, 2018

A successful conclusion to Run 2

The end of the LHC’s second run makes way for a busy long shutdown

Opinion
Accelerators
11 December, 2018
Accelerators
Opinion
11 December, 2018

LHC Report: Another run is over and LS2 has just begun…

The CERN accelerator complex is being switched off step-by-step in order to prepare for Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)

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Accelerators
11 December, 2018
Accelerators
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11 December, 2018

Key plans for the next two years of the LHC

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Accelerators
10 December, 2018
Accelerators
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10 December, 2018

LHC prepares for new achievements

After an outstanding performance, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the accelerator complex and the experiments are now stopping for two years for major improvements and upgrading.

Press release
Accelerators
03 December, 2018
Accelerators
Press release
03 December, 2018

CERN Accelerator School - High-Gradient Wakefield Accelerators

Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on High-Gradient Wakefield Accelerators, to be held in Sesimbra, Portugal from 11 March to 22 March 2019

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Accelerators
30 November, 2018
Accelerators
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30 November, 2018

Crystal cleaning the LHC beam

In October, for the first time, crystal collimators were used to improve the performance of the beam cleaning process at the LHC during a physics run

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Accelerators
27 November, 2018
Accelerators
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27 November, 2018

LHC Report: entering the last week of the heavy-ion run

The one-month 2018 heavy-ion run has just one week left to go

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Accelerators
27 November, 2018
Accelerators
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27 November, 2018

So long, Linac2, and thanks for all the protons

After 40 years of service, the linear accelerator has shut down and passed the baton to Linac4, which will take over as the first link in the accelerator chain

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Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
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13 November, 2018

LHC report: make way for the heavy ions

The first collisions of lead nuclei mark the start of a new LHC heavy-ion run

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Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
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13 November, 2018