High-Luminosity LHC

The High-Luminosity LHC is a project to increase the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 10 beyond its design value by 2020.

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HiLumi News: New CERN niobium–tin magnet energises the HL-LHC programme

A second 7.2-metre-long HL-LHC triplet quadrupole has reached the currents needed for 7 TeV operation, with higher performances

News
Accelerators
21 March, 2023

Superconductivity for sustainability: a new superconducting link for the High-Luminosity LHC

A flexible cryostat and the first series of high-temperature superconducting magnesium diboride cables will form an innovative electrical transfer line to power the HL-LHC inner triplet magnets

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Accelerators
03 March, 2023

News from the Chamonix workshop

The first Chamonix workshop, dedicated to LEP performance, took place in 1991 – we’ve come a long way since then!

Opinion
Accelerators
23 February, 2023
Accelerators
Opinion
23 February, 2023

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

News
Accelerators
25 January, 2023
Accelerators
News
25 January, 2023

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

News
Accelerators
25 January, 2023
Accelerators
News
25 January, 2023

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

News
At CERN
20 January, 2023

High-Luminosity LHC brochure

Brochure
Accelerators
Accelerators
Brochure

The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era

SM18 is one of the largest magnet test facilities in the world. Dedicated to testing superconducting magnets and radiofrequency cavities, it is now waiting for the first HL-LHC components

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Engineering
07 December, 2022
Engineering
News
07 December, 2022

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

News
Engineering
26 October, 2022
Engineering
News
26 October, 2022

Completion of the final civil-engineering works at HL-LHC Point 1: A new CERN facility is born

The construction of the last surface buildings for HL-LHC Point 1, including the underground connections to the HL-LHC cavern, is now complete

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At CERN
24 October, 2022

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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Accelerators
19 July, 2022