YETS

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Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

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Accelerators
15 February, 2024
Accelerators
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15 February, 2024

Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024

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Accelerators
09 November, 2023
Accelerators
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09 November, 2023

Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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Accelerators
10 May, 2023

The SPS beam dump

On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump

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Accelerators
25 April, 2022
Accelerators
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25 April, 2022

The end of YETS: awakening from hibernation

The Year-End Technical Stop drew to a close on 9 March. Read about the LHC plans the last year of Run 2

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Engineering
12 March, 2018
Engineering
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12 March, 2018

Accelerator hibernation ends

As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground

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Engineering
09 March, 2018
Engineering
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09 March, 2018

The new LHC protectors

New collimators are being installed and tested in the LHC. They will improve its protection and prepare it for higher luminosity in the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
27 February, 2018
Accelerators
News
27 February, 2018

What’s YETS for the experiments?

What repairs have been made at the experiments during the year-end technical stop

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At CERN
25 February, 2018
At CERN
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25 February, 2018

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
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24 April, 2017

What happened while the LHC slept over winter?

A round up of the upgrades and maintenance during the 2016/2017 extended year-end technical stop

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At CERN
10 April, 2017

Open-heart surgery for CMS

The CMS detector’s tracking system, which determines the trajectories of charged particles, is being replaced this week at Point 5

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Experiments
28 February, 2017
Experiments
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28 February, 2017

EYETS report: so far, so good

The 2016 – 2017 extended year-end technical stop features powering tests, magnet exchange, dump replacement, emptying the LHC of helium, and lifts!

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At CERN
31 January, 2017
At CERN
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31 January, 2017