Tag: LHC

  • The LHC leak repair: a short photostory

    The LHC leak repair: a short photostory

    Scroll through the photo diary to relive the repair of the LHC

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  • Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress

    Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress

    Despite challenging working conditions, the vacuum leak caused by the quench that occurred on 17 July was repaired in less than 10 days

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  • ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass

    ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass

    New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%

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  • Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

    Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

    On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation

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  • Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

    On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced

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  • Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing

    Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing

    On Monday, 19 June, LHC operation was paused for one week to allow the technical teams to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance on the machine and its subsystems

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  • Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

    Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

    The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring

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  • LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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  • Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam

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  • Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

    Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

    The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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