Tag: LHC

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

    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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  • A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders

    A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders

    An LHC quadrupole whose beam screen had been coated with a fine layer of carbon displayed minimal heat load in comparison to other magnets, constituting a promising step in eliminating electron clouds in future particle accelerators

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  • An encouraging start for Run 3

    In challenging times, it’s reassuring to see CERN’s accelerator complex fully up and running again, with physics being delivered to the experiments at ISOLDE and HIE-ISOLDE, n_TOF, AD-ELENA, the East Area, the North Area, AWAKE, HiRadMat, CLEAR and, of course, the LHC – the current temporary unscheduled stop notwithstanding – and great work being done

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  • Join CERN in a historic particle physics week

    Join CERN in a historic particle physics week

    Tune in to celebrate ten years of Higgs research at the LHC with CERN on 3 and 4 July. If your hunger for physics hasn’t been satiated, stay to witness the start of Run 3 at the LHC on 5 July

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  • Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

    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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  • What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?

    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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  • Large Hadron Collider restarts

    Large Hadron Collider restarts

    Beams of protons are again circulating around the collider’s 27-kilometre ring, marking the end of a multiple-year hiatus for upgrade work

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  • President of the Swiss Confederation visits CERN

    The President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, honoured CERN with his presence on Friday, 5 November 2021. He was accompanied by representatives of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (DEFR) and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE). At Point 1 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Swiss Head of

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  • LS2 Report: The new LHC collimators

    During LS2, 16 new collimators have been installed in the LHC ready for the next run and above all for the future HL-LHC

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  • CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science

    CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science

    A new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative

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