CERN Accelerating science

This week LS1 successfully passed an important milestone: the first pressure test of a complete sector, sector 6-7

There’s much to look forward to in 2014 – let’s make it another safe and successful year at CERN, says Director-General Rolf Heuer

Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year

The excellent progress of the maintenance work on CERN's accelerators, which is overwhelmingly on schedule, was praised by the CERN Council last week

ATLAS is improving its trigger system to be able to select even more collision events with potentially interesting physics

Updates from the EuCARD, TIARA, and HiLumi projects in Issue 8 of Accelerating News. Now available online

Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing

When night falls over CERN, a team of X-ray experts go underground to perform tests on the Large Hadron Collider

The dismantling and extraction of a defective DFBA module from LHC Point 6, has been completed without a hitch

The time has come for CERN to start seriously considering the options for its post-LHC future

On 14 November, the first H- beam was accelerated to the energy of 3 MeV in Linac 4