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Around the LHC in 252 days

All of the interconnections between the LHC superconducting magnets have been opened: an important step for the diode consolidation project

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Accelerators
12 November, 2019
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12 November, 2019

Aligning the HL-LHC magnets with interferometry

CERN surveyors have developed a procedure based on interferometry to determine the position of cold masses inside the cryostats of the future HL-LHC

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Accelerators
12 November, 2019
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12 November, 2019

LS2 Report: Linac4 knocking at the door of the PS Booster

During a two-month test run that started at the end of September, Linac4 will send negative hydrogen ions up to the door of the PS Booster

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Accelerators
29 October, 2019
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29 October, 2019

Halfway towards LHC consolidation

One hundred and fifty people are hard at work upgrading the Large Hadron Collider’s superconducting magnets

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Accelerators
21 October, 2019
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21 October, 2019

LS2 Report: Dissipating the electron clouds

Two teams are treating the vacuum chambers of selected SPS magnets to limit the electron-cloud phenomenon, which can disrupt the beams

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Accelerators
01 October, 2019
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01 October, 2019

Installing high luminosity in the tunnel

The first definitive component of the High-Luminosity LHC, an absorber designed to protect the machine, has been installed in the LHC

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Accelerators
04 September, 2019
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04 September, 2019

Celebrating 30 years of a giant LEP for humankind

The Large Electron–Positron collider was switched on in 1989

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Accelerators
13 August, 2019
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13 August, 2019

LS2 Report: New SPS beam dump takes shape

The Super Proton Synchrotron will receive a new beam dump before the end of the second long shutdown of CERN’s accelerator complex

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Accelerators
13 August, 2019
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13 August, 2019

FCC Week brings a fresh breeze of ideas from Brussels

International researchers and industry meet in Brussels for the annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study to discuss the post-LHC era

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Accelerators
09 July, 2019

LS2 Report: new components installed in the PS Booster

New injection and acceleration equipment is being installed in the PS Booster, which is in the midst of a major overhaul

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Accelerators
12 June, 2019