As the LHC’s first long shutdown, LS1, enters its second calendar year, it’s a good time for a mid-term report on how things are progressing

This week LS1 successfully passed an important milestone: the first pressure test of a complete sector, sector 6-7

There’s much to look forward to in 2014 – let’s make it another safe and successful year at CERN, says Director-General Rolf Heuer

The excellent progress of the maintenance work on CERN's accelerators, which is overwhelmingly on schedule, was praised by the CERN Council last week

Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18

The dismantling and extraction of a defective DFBA module from LHC Point 6, has been completed without a hitch

Maintenance activities across the CERN site for Long Shutdown 1 are progressing well

New beam dump and shielding blocks installed at the PS Booster

At the PS, replacement of the old cooling and ventilation system, which dated back to 1957, is progressing well

At the LHC, the SMACC project’s consolidation train has just entered Sector 7-8, the third sector to be consolidated

This week, teams have started X-raying the cryogenic line to examine its condition in detail

Things are going well in all the laboratory’s accelerators