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Collider, a new exhibition about the LHC, opens in London this week. It will stay for 6 months before a planned international tour
Maintenance activities across the CERN site for Long Shutdown 1 are progressing well
New beam dump and shielding blocks installed at the PS Booster
At the PS, replacement of the old cooling and ventilation system, which dated back to 1957, is progressing well
Watch CERN engineers install a new beam dump at the Proton Synchrotron Booster
Issue 7 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
CERN and Google have joined forces to create panoramic virtual tours of the CERN site
At the LHC, the SMACC project’s consolidation train has just entered Sector 7-8, the third sector to be consolidated
Following the first 3.5 TeV collisions in March 2010, the LHC had three years of improving integrated luminosity
A site evaluation committee has recommended a location for the proposed International Linear Collider, if it is built in Japan
This week, teams have started X-raying the cryogenic line to examine its condition in detail
Things are going well in all the laboratory’s accelerators