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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Beams are back in the LHC

Protons have been circulating in the Large Hadron Collider since Friday 30 March, marking the start of the machine’s seventh year of operation

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Accelerators
30 March, 2018
Accelerators
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30 March, 2018

Training particle and accelerator scientists of the future

The Joint Universities Accelerator School in Archamps, France, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday

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Knowledge sharing
10 March, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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10 March, 2018

Preparing for the last year of LHC Run 2

This year’s LHC performance workshop took place in Chamonix from 29 January to 1 February.

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Accelerators
13 February, 2018
Accelerators
Opinion
13 February, 2018

A new compact accelerator for cultural heritage

CERN and INFN develop a transportable accelerator to help preserve cultural heritage

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Knowledge sharing
19 December, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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19 December, 2017

CLEAR prospects for accelerator research

A new user facility, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), hosts accelerator research and development projects

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Accelerators
01 November, 2017
Accelerators
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01 November, 2017

Xenon in the SPS: First tests for a photon factory

Partially ionised xenon atoms have been accelerated in the SPS to test a new gamma-ray source concept

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Accelerators
27 October, 2017
Accelerators
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27 October, 2017

To 20 Tesla and beyond: the high-temperature superconductors

High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics

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Accelerators
22 September, 2017
Accelerators
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22 September, 2017

Accelerating particles - but not just for the LHC

The chain of accelerators that prepare beams for the LHC also supplies myriad experiments

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Accelerators
07 July, 2017

How can cubes made of paper help teach particle physics?

AcceleratAR uses paper cubes and an augmented reality app to simulate a particle accelerator to help students learn about particle physics

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Knowledge sharing
29 June, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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29 June, 2017

ARIES project kicks off at CERN

The Horizon 2020 project “Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society” (ARIES) officially began on 1 May 2017

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Accelerators
06 June, 2017
Accelerators
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06 June, 2017

A brand new linear accelerator for CERN

At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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Accelerators
09 May, 2017
Accelerators
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09 May, 2017

AWAKE: Making waves in accelerator technology

The AWAKE experiment has reached an important milestone in the development of a technique that could revolutionise particle accelerator design

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Accelerators
14 December, 2016
Accelerators
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14 December, 2016