North Area

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Accelerator Report: Preparing the LHC and its injector complex for the 2024 lead-ion run

The physics run for the SPS North Area will start on 4 November, followed by the LHC lead-ion physics run on 6 November, and the PS East Area on 11 November

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Accelerators
20 September, 2024
Accelerators
News
20 September, 2024

NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories

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Physics
09 August, 2024

AMBER releases its first results

The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter

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Physics
02 August, 2024
Physics
News
02 August, 2024

Accelerator Report: No summer holidays for the accelerator complex

CERN’s accelerators show very good availability rates: beams are in place

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Accelerators
11 July, 2024

NA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matter

The NA64 collaboration has used a muon beam for the first time to search for dark matter and could set new limits for a potential dark Z' boson

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Experiments
18 May, 2024

MADMAX at the forefront of the search for axions

The MADMAX experiment at CERN’s North Area probes dark matter candidates with two new prototypes

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Experiments
13 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
Accelerators
News
12 October, 2023

SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US

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Physics
07 June, 2023
Physics
News
07 June, 2023

NA65

Experiments
Experiments

LS2 Report: Accelerated beams in the SPS

The SPS accelerated its first LHC-type beam in May and is now sending beams to the North Area, where the physics season has started

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Accelerators
12 August, 2021
Accelerators
News
12 August, 2021

NA64

Experiments
Experiments