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Superconducting magnets of the future in the making at CERN
The latest CERN Courier details the promises and challenges of the new superconducting magnets being developed for increasing accelerator’s energy and luminosity
Lucio Rossi receives a prize from the European Physical Society
The High-Luminosity LHC project leader has been awarded the EPS-AG Rolf Widerøe Prize for his major contributions to the field of applied superconductivity for accelerators
HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment
Novel cryostat units have been installed for the High-Luminosity LHC to allow insertion of room-temperature collimators in the LHC’s 1.9 K cryostats
Entering Uncharted Waters
The Large Hadron Collider began its physics programme on this day a decade ago
A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet field
The eRMC demonstrator, consisting of two flat niobium-tin coils, has produced a peak magnetic field of 16.5 tesla, a promising result in the context of the FCC (Future Circular Collider) study
LS2 Report: Consolidation of the LHC’s external beam dumps
The LHC’s external beam dumps are currently being upgraded ready for Run 3
LS2 Report: innovation to stop protons in their tracks
Two new beam dumps are ready to be installed in the Proton Synchrotron
How to simulate particle transport with Geant4
CERN will host training courses on the Geant4 toolkit for the simulation of particle transport in January and March 2020
LS2 Report: PS prepared for higher injection energies
CERN’s oldest working accelerator has a new injection kicker magnet and will soon receive a new septum as well
Final stretch for diode insulation in the LHC
The DISMAC project’s teams have insulated the 1232nd – and last – diode of the LHC