Tag: LHC

  • A great start for the whole CERN accelerator chain

    With physics data-taking under way this week at the LHC, I’d like to take a look at what’s been happening at the rest of the CERN accelerator chain.

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  • Report from Council

    This week’s Council meeting was dominated by discussions about the long-term, sustainable future of CERN

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  • Important milestones for the LHC and for integrity

    The major news this week is, of course, the start of LHC Run 2

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  • The slings and arrows of LHC restart schedules

    Against a backdrop of great progress in the powering tests for running at 6.5 TeV, a short cicuit is causing a delay, writes Rolf Heuer

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  • The strength of worldwide collaboration

    Physicists from across the globe bring a welcome richness to the LHC experiments, says former ATLAS spokesperson Peter Jenni

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  • Towards the next chapter

    The time has come for CERN to start seriously considering the options for its post-LHC future

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  • LS1: “Safety, quality, schedule”

    Just as Olympic marathon runners have a motto, so the athletes of LS1 work to the mantra of “Safety, Quality, Schedule,” says Rolf Heuer

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  • Chamonix: Looking forward to 2012

    The experiments’ desiderata for the year included either discovery or exclusion of the Higgs boson

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  • Chamonix: LHC performance review kicks off

    The first day of the LHC performance workshop was devoted to a critical review of 2011, with suggestions for improvements to the beams and hardware

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  • ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC

    Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – are today

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