CERN Accelerating science

As the last step before the intensity ramping-up, the week 23 was dedicated for the scrubbing of the beam pipes

After declaring stable beams, now it’s the period of scrubbing and intensity ramp-up, until 2556 bunches per beam will circulate in the machine

The LHC has been accelerating more and more protons, and to allow the machine to reach its maximum intensity, it will undergo a thorough scrubbing.

The Horizon 2020 project “Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society” (ARIES) officially began on 1 May 2017

Ten years after it was approved, CERN’s new accelerator is officially inaugurated

The first collisions with stable beams were delivered to the LHC experiments on 23 May, after three weeks of commissioning with beams

Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017

At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

On Saturday, 29 April, two days ahead of schedule, beams were circulating again in the LHC

For the first time this year, the LHC is circulating beams of protons, following a 17-week-long extended technical stop

We meet Rende Steerenberg, who is the group leader for the accelerator and technical teams

The powering tests of the LHC circuits are a big part of the machine re-commissioning: almost 1600 circuits have to be tested in just few weeks