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Looking back on an eventful year for accelerators

Accelerator highlights, challenges and successes in 2023

Opinion
Accelerators
07 December, 2023
Accelerators
Opinion
07 December, 2023

HiLumi News: Successful test paves the way for magnet production at CERN

Engineers have successfully tested an improved design of a quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN, confirming that niobium–tin technology is viable for accelerator magnets

News
Accelerators
05 December, 2023
Accelerators
News
05 December, 2023

Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024

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Accelerators
09 November, 2023
Accelerators
News
09 November, 2023

Accelerator Report: Ending the 2023 run with a quench

Another few days and the last 2023 LHC beams will be dumped, hopefully by the machine protection system following a controlled magnet quench

News
Accelerators
26 October, 2023
Accelerators
News
26 October, 2023

Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
Accelerators
News
12 October, 2023

HiLumi News: Recombination dipole prototype successfully tested for the LHC’s high-luminosity upgrade

The D2 prototype magnet, developed and manufactured in Italy, has been integrated and tested in the longest HL-LHC cold mass with corrector magnets from China and CERN

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Accelerators
29 September, 2023
Accelerators
News
29 September, 2023

Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics

In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

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Accelerators
13 September, 2023
Accelerators
News
13 September, 2023

Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions

The LHC resumes beam production, following the repair of the inner triplet vacuum leak, and gears up for heavy ion collisions

News
Accelerators
01 September, 2023
Accelerators
News
01 September, 2023

HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets

The many CERN-developed sensors and software programs of the FRAS (Full Remote Alignment System) have been successfully tested on a prototype magnet in preparation for the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
01 September, 2023
Accelerators
News
01 September, 2023