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Luminosity is an important indicator of the performance of an accelerator: it is proportional to the number of collisions that occur in a given amount of time. The higher the luminosity, the more data the experiments can gather to allow them to observe rare processes.

  • Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam

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  • ATLAS delivers most precise luminosity measurement at the LHC

    Precise knowledge of luminosity is crucial for both searches for new phenomena and precision measurements of known Standard Model processes

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  • Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed

    Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed

    CERN celebrates the completion of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the major upgrade of its flagship collider, the LHC

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  • LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

    LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

    Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex

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  • Seeing is believing

    Lucio Rossi reflects on how particle accelerators extend our sense of sight

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