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LS1 report: Full-size security

Last week several CERN teams were involved in creating a life-size mock helium leak in Sector 4-5

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18 February, 2014
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18 February, 2014

SESAME breathes new life into LEP cavities

Radiofrequency cavities built for the Large Electron Positron Collider are finding use on the SESAME project

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05 February, 2014
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05 February, 2014

LS1 report: setting the bar high

This week LS1 successfully passed an important milestone: the first pressure test of a complete sector, sector 6-7

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20 January, 2014
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20 January, 2014

Highlights from CERN in 2013

Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year

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19 December, 2013
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19 December, 2013

LS1 report: on the home straight in 2014

The excellent progress of the maintenance work on CERN's accelerators, which is overwhelmingly on schedule, was praised by the CERN Council last week

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19 December, 2013
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19 December, 2013

Upgrading the ATLAS trigger system

ATLAS is improving its trigger system to be able to select even more collision events with potentially interesting physics

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19 December, 2013
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19 December, 2013

Accelerating News winter issue now available online

Updates from the EuCARD, TIARA, and HiLumi projects in Issue 8 of Accelerating News. Now available online

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16 December, 2013
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16 December, 2013

LS1 report: a stubborn cavity will soon be replaced

Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18

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11 December, 2013
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11 December, 2013

Power napping for detectors

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing

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06 December, 2013
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06 December, 2013

X-ray tests: Night at the collider

When night falls over CERN, a team of X-ray experts go underground to perform tests on the Large Hadron Collider

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25 November, 2013
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25 November, 2013