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The second annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study took place from 11 to 15 April in Rome.
The first low-intensity stable beams have been declared in the LHC following the restart in March 2016
This week sees leaders in the fields of physics and engineering meet to discuss the future of particle accelerators
Quiet beams declared in the LHC as the first test collisions are made
A preliminary short prototype of the quadrupole magnets for the High-Luminosity LHC has passed its first tests
Issue 16 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
The LHC has introduced beam for the first time since the year-end technical stop began in December 2015
An update on the maintenance work that’s been carried out on the LHC, the experiments and the machines during the year-end technical stop
It’s March already, and time for the LHC to wake up from its short winter break
With the machine back in their hands since Friday, 4 March, the LHC operators are now performing the powering tests on the magnets
In this week's Bulletin find out the MoEDAL’s physics programme
Registration is now open for the second Annual Meeting of the Future Circular Collider study from 11 to 15 April 2016, in Rome