Tag: Proton Synchrotron

  • Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases

    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

    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: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

    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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  • 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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  • Oscar Barbalat (1935 – 2023)

    Oscar Barbalat (1935 – 2023)

    Oscar Barbalat(1935 – 2023) — Oscar Barbalat, electronics engineer and knowledge transfer pioneer at CERN, died on 8 September, aged 87. Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1935, he joined CERN in 1961, working initially for the PS-RF group. At the time, the PS beam intensity was still below 109 protons/pulse and the beam control system

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  • Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics

    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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  • With FLOTUS, aerosol precursor vapours age more quickly

    With FLOTUS, aerosol precursor vapours age more quickly

    FLOTUS is a new addition to the CLOUD experiment at CERN. By accelerating the oxidation of organic vapours before injecting them into the CLOUD chamber, FLOTUS allows more complex atmospheric phenomena to be studied

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  • Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/accelerators/giorgio-brianti-1930-2023) Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy

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