The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic

At LHC Point 4, a refrigerator that cools helium from room temperature to 4.5 K (-268.65 °C) has undergone major improvements in preparation for the HL-LHC

A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC

Oliver Brüning takes over from Lucio Rossi at the helm of the HL-LHC project as of 1 July

A superconducting electrical transmission line developed for the High-Luminosity LHC has set a new intensity record

Novel cryostat units have been installed for the High-Luminosity LHC to allow insertion of room-temperature collimators in the LHC’s 1.9 K cryostats

On 14 January, the Directors gave their traditional review of the year gone by to a packed CERN Main Auditorium

The underground structures of the High-Luminosity LHC have been connected to the LHC tunnel

The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year

The socioeconomic and cultural benefits from upgrading the Large Hadron Collider exceed the project’s costs

CERN surveyors have developed a procedure based on interferometry to determine the position of cold masses inside the cryostats of the future HL-LHC

The CMS muon system is being upgraded to help track muons with ever-higher precision