Tag: Super Proton Synchrotron

  • Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success

    Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success

    On Thursday, 28 September, at 8.00 a.m., as planned, the Operations team at the SPS stopped producing proton beams for the experiments in the SPS North Area (NA). Instead, they switched over to lead-ion beams, in preparation for a month-long physics run that begins on Monday, 2 October, and will continue until 6.00 a.m. on

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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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  • Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    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 lives on across the whole of the accelerator

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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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  • The 1980s: spurring collaboration

    Former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper recalls a decade of growth at CERN

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