accelerator

There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light.

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Crystal cleaning the LHC beam

In October, for the first time, crystal collimators were used to improve the performance of the beam cleaning process at the LHC during a physics run

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27 November, 2018
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27 November, 2018

So long, Linac2, and thanks for all the protons

After 40 years of service, the linear accelerator has shut down and passed the baton to Linac4, which will take over as the first link in the accelerator chain

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13 November, 2018
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13 November, 2018

High-Luminosity LHC

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Booster - 4K footage

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SPS footage - 4K

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PS in 4K

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Success for AWAKE

The experiment successfully accelerated electrons with plasma wakefields generated by protons, a world first

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Experiments
10 September, 2018
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10 September, 2018

AWAKE successfully accelerates electrons

Proton beams from the SPS at CERN were used to generate plasma waves upon which the electrons “surfed”

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29 August, 2018
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29 August, 2018

LINAC4 Footage (HD)

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Meet Linac4

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Keeping a close watch over the beams

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09 July, 2018
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09 July, 2018