Author: Corinne Pralavorio

  • Final laps at the LHC

    Final laps at the LHC

    The final physics season at the LHC has just kicked off! The experiments will record collisions until the end of June, when work will begin on transforming the machine into a high-luminosity accelerator.

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  • HiLumi LHC: cryogenics equipment arrives underground

    HiLumi LHC: cryogenics equipment arrives underground

    Two cold boxes have been transported down into the service tunnels of the future accelerator

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  • A cryogenic winter for tomorrow’s accelerator

    A cryogenic winter for tomorrow’s accelerator

    The first large refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC have been installed

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  • The accelerator chain prepares for high luminosity

    The accelerator chain prepares for high luminosity

    The accelerators that feed into the Large Hadron Collider are ready to supply more intense beams

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  • Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN

    Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN

    This year, on the occasion of what would have been the 120th birthday of Felix Bloch, first Director-General of CERN and 1952 Nobel laureate in physics, the physicist’s family generously donated his Nobel prize medal to CERN

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  • Leadership handover at HL-LHC

    Leadership handover at HL-LHC

    Oliver Brüning, who has led the HL-LHC project since 2020, is handing the position of HL-LHC project leader over to Markus Zerlauth

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  • HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    The delivery of two huge compressors kicks off the installation of the new helium refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC

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  • The High-Luminosity LHC test stand is taking shape

    The High-Luminosity LHC test stand is taking shape

    The teams are making the final interconnections in the chain of magnets that will be used to test the components of the LHC’s successor

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  • A journey through CERN’s past in black and white

    A journey through CERN’s past in black and white

    An exhibition of old black-and-white photos at Geneva’s Bains des Pâquis retraces some of CERN’s history

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  • The test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC welcomes its first magnets

    The test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC welcomes its first magnets

    The installation of the High-Luminosity LHC test facility continues with the arrival of two magnet assemblies

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