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The beams inside the LHC are made to collide at four locations around the accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of four particle detectors – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
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Accelerator Report: Navigating hot summer days and thunderstorms

The summer is often a very productive period for physics in CERN’s accelerator complex, that is, when the weather remains reasonable…

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Accelerators
01 August, 2024
Accelerators
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01 August, 2024

Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases

The LHC injector chain has been switched to a new beam production scheme to explore its potential to produce more collisions in the LHC and to compare its performance to that of the standard LHC beam

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Accelerators
30 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there

The LHC is performing well and the injector complex is treating its experimental users to a high level of beam availability

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Accelerators
15 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved

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Accelerators
28 March, 2024

From capturing collisions to avoiding them

How CERN machine-learning techniques could improve autonomous vehicles

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Knowledge sharing
29 August, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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29 August, 2019

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Musician Howie Day records love song to physics

After Howie Day heard a parody of his 2004 single “Collide”, he flew to Switzerland to sing it at the LHC

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At CERN
23 June, 2017

CERN experiments present results at Quark Matter 2015

There were presentations from ALICE, CMS, ATLAS and LHCb at the international conference on ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions this week

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Experiments
02 October, 2015
Experiments
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02 October, 2015

Seeing the invisible: Event displays in particle physics

From cloud chambers to 3D animations, physicists use a host of ingenious techniques to reveal subatomic particles too tiny to see

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Experiments
04 June, 2015