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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Lucio Rossi receives a prize from the European Physical Society

The High-Luminosity LHC project leader has been awarded the EPS-AG Rolf Widerøe Prize for his major contributions to the field of applied superconductivity for accelerators

News
Accelerators
20 May, 2020

[CANCELLED] 9-13 March: Compact Linear Collider Workshop

Announcement
Physics
26 February, 2020
Physics
Announcement
26 February, 2020

Celebrating 30 years of a giant LEP for humankind

The Large Electron–Positron collider was switched on in 1989

News
Accelerators
13 August, 2019
Accelerators
News
13 August, 2019

Cleaner cruises thanks to particle accelerators

Latvian tugboat provides first test-bed for new technology to clean exhausts from ships

News
Knowledge sharing
07 August, 2019
Knowledge sharing
News
07 August, 2019

LS2 Report: The PS’s magnets prepare for higher energies

Following our article on the PS Booster, we take a look at the next link in CERN’s accelerator chain: the venerable PS and its magnet system

News
Accelerators
13 February, 2019
Accelerators
News
13 February, 2019

New small-scale accelerator to help study heritage artworks

A collaboration with INFN will see CERN technology optimised for use in cultural-heritage projects

News
Knowledge sharing
29 January, 2019
Knowledge sharing
News
29 January, 2019

International collaboration publishes concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submits its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication

Press release
Accelerators
15 January, 2019
Accelerators
Press release
15 January, 2019

Key plans for the next two years of the LHC

News
Accelerators
10 December, 2018
Accelerators
News
10 December, 2018

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

News
Accelerators
27 November, 2018
Accelerators
News
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

News
Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
News
13 November, 2018