LHC Run 3

30 results

Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV

Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023

News
Accelerators
27 April, 2023

Accelerator Report: Preparing for the upcoming LHC restart

With the progressive recommissioning of the injectors – including, now, the SPS – the various types of beam are being set up and are gradually reaching the downstream accelerators

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Accelerators
22 March, 2023

Beam Gas Curtain: a new instrument for LHC Run 3

A High-Luminosity LHC instrument known as the Beam Gas Curtain will be tested and start collecting data during Run 3

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Accelerators
21 March, 2023

News from the Chamonix workshop

The first Chamonix workshop, dedicated to LEP performance, took place in 1991 – we’ve come a long way since then!

Opinion
Accelerators
23 February, 2023
Accelerators
Opinion
23 February, 2023

ATLAS moves into top gear for Run 3

In their first Run 3 results, the ATLAS collaboration measured two Standard Model processes: the production of Z bosons and top-quark pairs

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Physics
16 December, 2022
Physics
News
16 December, 2022

LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex

News
Accelerators
07 December, 2022
Accelerators
News
07 December, 2022

First Run 3 physics result by CMS

CMS measured the top-quark pair production cross section

News
Physics
04 November, 2022
Physics
News
04 November, 2022

LHCb’s new VELO springs into action

The subdetector aligned more closely with the LHC beam than ever before, marking an important milestone in LHCb data taking

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Experiments
26 October, 2022
Experiments
News
26 October, 2022

A glimpse into the past while preparing for the future: CERN is celebrated by millions

This year, CERN celebrated the restart of the LHC, the beginning of the LHC Run 3 and the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. These milestones contributed to a surge of interest in CERN and particle physics among the public.

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At CERN
10 October, 2022

LHCf continues to investigate cosmic rays

LHCf has completed its first data-taking period during LHC Run 3, taking advantage of the record 13.6 TeV collision energy. This coincides with the machine’s record fill time of 57 hours

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Experiments
28 September, 2022
Experiments
News
28 September, 2022

An encouraging start for Run 3

Opinion
Accelerators
31 August, 2022
Accelerators
Opinion
31 August, 2022

The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started

A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV

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At CERN
05 July, 2022