Tag: LHC
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Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases
The LHC injector chain has been switched to a new beam production scheme to explore its potential to produce more collisions in the LHC and to compare its performance to that of the standard LHC beam
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Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there
The LHC is performing well and the injector complex is treating its experimental users to a high level of beam availability
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Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges
In the last two weeks, the LHC teams have encountered two main challenges that have led to some changes to the filling scheme
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Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule
Almost the whole accelerator complex is now in “physics mode”, routinely delivering the various types of beam to the different physics facilities and experiments. Notably, the intensity ramp-up in the LHC is progressing remarkably well
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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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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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Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both
Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved
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Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC
On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC, kicking off the 2024 LHC beam commissioning
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Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges
The injection of the first protons into the LHC is scheduled for 11 March, but could be brought forward by a few days if all goes well
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CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break
A new physics run is about to begin! The first particle beams should reach the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 11 March