vacuum

Vacuum cleaners

8 Apr 2013 | Image | Technicians check LHC magnets for leaks in the vacuum before the accelerator is brought to room temperature

Vacuum tests

25 Mar 2013 | Image | A technician uses a helium gun to check for leaks in the LHC vacuum system

OSQAR

3 Dec 2012 | Experiment | The OSQAR experiment looks for particles that could be a component of dark matter and explain why our universe is made of matter instead of antimatter

A vacuum as empty as interplanetary space

31 Aug 2012 | Engineering page | With the first start-up of beams in 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) became the biggest operational vacuum system in the world

Vacuum team race against time to fix LHC component

5 Mar 2012 | Update - For the public | Anaïs Schaeffer | On 17 January the Vacuums, Surfaces and Coatings (VSC) Group had exactly one hour to extract and fix a faulty 2-metre section of the LHC's vacuum

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