Tag: Linac4

  • Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

    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: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

    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

    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

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  • Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

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  • Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

    Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

    The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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  • Accelerator Report: The CERN accelerator complex is awakening from hibernation

    Accelerator Report: The CERN accelerator complex is awakening from hibernation

    The last LHC beam of 2022 was dumped in the early morning of Monday, 28 November; 17 weeks later, on Monday, 27 March 2023, we plan to inject the first beam of the year into the LHC

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  • A brand new linear accelerator for CERN

    A brand new linear accelerator for CERN

    At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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  • Linac 4 reached its energy goal

    Linac 4 reached its energy goal

    After having accelerated a beam up to the design energy of 160 MeV, Linac 4 is now entering a new phase of its commissioning

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