Tag: LHC

  • Meet TIM, the LHC tunnel’s robot

    Meet TIM, the LHC tunnel’s robot

    The Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) is equipped with a camera and several measurement sensors to monitor the LHC tunnel in real-time

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  • LHC smashes targets for 2016 run

    The target for the LHC integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40.

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  • 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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