Tag: Long Shutdown 2

  • HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator

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  • Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

    Autopsy of an LHC beam dump

    For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams

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  • The SPS beam dump

    The SPS beam dump

    On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump

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  • LS2 Report: The new LHC collimators

    During LS2, 16 new collimators have been installed in the LHC ready for the next run and above all for the future HL-LHC

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  • Live: from the ATLAS experiment

    Live: from the ATLAS experiment

    Join scientists live from the underground cavern of the ATLAS experiment tomorrow on social media

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  • LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    Join scientists live from the underground cavern of the CMS experiment today on social media

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  • New schedule for CERN’s accelerators and experiments

    New schedule for CERN’s accelerators and experiments

    The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • LS2 Report: The High-Luminosity LHC is ready for injection

    LS2 Report: The High-Luminosity LHC is ready for injection

    A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC

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  • 2019 in review

    On 14 January, the Directors gave their traditional review of the year gone by to a packed CERN Main Auditorium

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  • A new schedule for the LHC and its successor

    A new schedule for the LHC and its successor

    The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year

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