SPS

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The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle

Additional evidence of an unknown particle from a Hungarian lab gives a new impetus to NA64 searches

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Physics
27 November, 2019

LS2 Report: New fire protection equipment in the SPS

Work is in progress to modernise the fire protection system in the SPS

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Accelerators
10 December, 2019
Accelerators
News
10 December, 2019

LS2 Report: Dissipating the electron clouds

Two teams are treating the vacuum chambers of selected SPS magnets to limit the electron-cloud phenomenon, which can disrupt the beams

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Accelerators
01 October, 2019
Accelerators
News
01 October, 2019

NA64 casts light on dark photons

The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart

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Physics
22 July, 2019
Physics
News
22 July, 2019

LS2 Report: a technological leap for the acceleration of SPS

The SPS radiofrequency acceleration system is being enhanced with a new technology: solid-state amplifiers

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Accelerators
26 February, 2019
Accelerators
News
26 February, 2019

More powerful protectors for higher luminosity

An important protection component for the High-Luminosity LHC has been successfully tested at the HiRadMat facility

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Engineering
29 October, 2018
Engineering
News
29 October, 2018

SPS footage - 4K

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Accelerators
Accelerators
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Crabs settled in the tunnel

After several years of preparatory work, the first crab cavity prototypes have been installed in the SPS tunnel and are ready for testing

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Engineering
22 April, 2018
Engineering
News
22 April, 2018

CERN’s SPS experiments restart

Experiments resume at CERN’s second-largest accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron

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Accelerators
19 April, 2018
Accelerators
News
19 April, 2018

New chairs for the Antiproton Decelerator Users Community

Stefan Ulmer and Chloé Malbrunot are the newly elected chairs of the Antiproton Decelerator Users Community

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At CERN
24 February, 2018

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
News
27 October, 2017

SPS: last injector back up and running

The Super Proton Synchrotron is the last accelerator that had to awaken before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider in 2017

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Accelerators
24 April, 2017
Accelerators
News
24 April, 2017