Tag: ELENA
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All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi
CERN’s injector complex and Antimatter Factory took their final steps towards Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) this morning, as the last particle beams were extracted and the machines fell silent. This milestone follows the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in June, which marked the beginning of LS3 for the Laboratory’s flagship accelerator. While the
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Accelerator Report: The 2026 run will be short but intense
Every day counts, so the LHC operations teams have mapped out a precise sequence of running phases to maximise the physics output during the machine’s final months
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Accelerator Report: Protons are heading towards the LHC
Many activities are currently progressing across the accelerator chain as the complex moves steadily towards full operation
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Antiprotons to test the Standard Model
The PAX experiment, the first user of the antimatter factory’s new test beamline, is studying quantum electrodynamics using atoms containing an antiproton
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An antimatter beam open for booking
Need an antiproton beam? TELMAX, the new test beamline at CERN’s antimatter factory, is now open for booking
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Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning
The LHC operations team and many other experts have been working hard to set up and validate the accelerator for safe beam operation, leading to the first stable beams for physics of 2025 on 5 May
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Accelerator Report: A well-deserved winter break for the accelerator complex
Soon, CERN personnel will take a well-deserved winter break, just like the accelerator complex. Following a successful year, the remainder of the accelerator complex was stopped on 2 December, marking the official start of the year-end technical stop
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Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons
The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties
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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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GBAR joins the anticlub
The GBAR experiment at CERN has just joined the very select club of experiments that have succeeded in synthesising antihydrogen atoms