Tag: LHC Run 3
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Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024
This marks the beginning of physics for the third year of Run 3 of CERN’s flagship particle accelerator
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ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions
The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018
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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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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
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Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV
Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023
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Accelerator Report: Preparing for the upcoming LHC restart
With the progressive recommissioning of the injectors – including, now, the SPS – the various types of beam are being set up and are gradually reaching the downstream accelerators
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Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3
A High-Luminosity LHC instrument known as the Beam Gas Curtain will be tested and start collecting data during Run 3
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Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3
A High-Luminosity LHC instrument known as the Beam Gas Curtain will be tested and start collecting data during Run 3
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ATLAS moves into top gear for Run 3
In their first Run 3 results, the ATLAS collaboration measured two Standard Model processes: the production of Z bosons and top-quark pairs