Tag: technology
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ICRC and CERN cooperate on R&D in technologies for humanitarian action
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came to CERN on Friday, 24 March for the first in a series of knowledge-sharing sessions on free and open source technologies
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Cool kickers for the HL-LHC
The first “MKI-Cool” was installed in early January – water-cooled ferrite cylinders will protect the LHC’s kicker magnets from increased heat load in the high-luminosity era
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HiLumi News: 7.2-m-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN reaches nominal current for the first time
The 7.2-metre-long version of this vital HL-LHC component reached nominal current plus an operational margin corresponding to a coil peak field of 11.5 T at 1.9 K during a test in SM18
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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
Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex
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A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders
An LHC quadrupole whose beam screen had been coated with a fine layer of carbon displayed minimal heat load in comparison to other magnets, constituting a promising step in eliminating electron clouds in future particle accelerators
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CERN joins with leaders from research and industry to propose an Open Quantum Institute
The Open Quantum Institute will work to ensure that emerging quantum technologies are put to use to tackle key societal challenges
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AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields
The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients
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HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience
A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators
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CERN unveils quantum research programme
CERN QTI reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme