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HiLumi News: 7.2-m-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN reaches nominal current for the first time

The 7.2-metre-long version of this vital HL-LHC component reached nominal current plus an operational margin corresponding to a coil peak field of 11.5 T at 1.9 K during a test in SM18

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Accelerators
25 January, 2023
Accelerators
News
25 January, 2023

CERN Accelerator School: RF for Accelerators | 18 June - 1 July 2023

Announcement
Accelerators
13 December, 2022
Accelerators
Announcement
13 December, 2022

LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex

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Accelerators
07 December, 2022
Accelerators
News
07 December, 2022

An encouraging start for Run 3

Opinion
Accelerators
31 August, 2022
Accelerators
Opinion
31 August, 2022

HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

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Accelerators
19 July, 2022

HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

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Accelerators
14 July, 2022

Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams

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Accelerators
08 June, 2022
Accelerators
News
08 June, 2022

What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?

A new experiment has been performed at the HiRadMat facility to test various materials that could be used in the LHC and HL-LHC beam dumps

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Accelerators
08 June, 2022

The SPS beam dump

On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump

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Accelerators
25 April, 2022
Accelerators
News
25 April, 2022