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The LHC prepares for the future

Studies on beam adjustment and new components are being conducted in preparation for future LHC runs

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14 September, 2018
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14 September, 2018

LHC Report: 48 fb-1 and counting

Since the recovery from the recent machine development period, the LHC has been in luminosity production mode, crawling its way up towards 60 fb-1

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10 September, 2018
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10 September, 2018

The Large Hadron Collider: 10 years and counting

Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction

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10 September, 2018
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10 September, 2018

AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN reports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma.

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Accelerators
29 August, 2018
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29 August, 2018

LHC Report: first acceleration of partially stripped ions

The LHC has just come out of a successful week of machine development (MD), used to carry out studies covering a wide spectrum of topics

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21 August, 2018
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21 August, 2018

HIE-ISOLDE’s Phase 2 reaches completion

The HIE-ISOLDE project is on its way to providing radioactive nuclei at higher energies than before

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21 August, 2018
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21 August, 2018

LHC accelerates its first “atoms”

Lead "atoms" with a single remaining electron swirl around the Large Hadron Collider

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27 July, 2018
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27 July, 2018

LHC Report: Back in production

At 2.02 p.m. on Saturday, 7 July, the last fill of the special physics run was dumped, ready for standard physics to resume

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11 July, 2018
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11 July, 2018

Keeping a close watch over the beams

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09 July, 2018
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09 July, 2018

LHC report: Investing in the future

The latest Machine Development period ended on early Monday morning, 18 June, after six days of intensive studies of the LHC accelerator

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26 June, 2018
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26 June, 2018