Tag: LHC
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Host State Presidents visit CERN
President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron and President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset visited CERN on 16 November
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Accelerator Report: Ending the 2023 run with a quench
Another few days and the last 2023 LHC beams will be dumped, hopefully by the machine protection system following a controlled magnet quench
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Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)
Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user
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The LHC lead-ion collision run starts
For the coming 5 weeks the LHC experiments will be taking data for their heavy-ion physics programmes
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Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics
In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments
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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
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
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
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
On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced