luminosity

Luminosity is an important indicator of the performance of an accelerator: it is proportional to the number of collisions that occur in a given amount of time. The higher the luminosity, the more data the experiments can gather to allow them to observe rare processes.
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Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced

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Accelerators
05 July, 2023

Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring

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Accelerators
06 June, 2023

Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam

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Accelerators
24 May, 2023
Accelerators
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24 May, 2023

ATLAS delivers most precise luminosity measurement at the LHC

Precise knowledge of luminosity is crucial for both searches for new phenomena and precision measurements of known Standard Model processes

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Physics
24 January, 2023

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

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

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Accelerators
07 December, 2022
Accelerators
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07 December, 2022

Why precision luminosity measurements matter

Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed luminosity measurements with spectacular precision

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Physics
12 May, 2021

Record luminosity: well done LHC

The LHC’s 2017 proton run has ended with record luminosity. The special runs will now take place before the winter shutdown.

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Accelerators
13 November, 2017
Accelerators
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13 November, 2017

The LHC racks up records

The Large Hadron Collider has established a new record of luminosity, delivering a huge amount of data to its experiments

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Accelerators
30 June, 2017
Accelerators
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30 June, 2017

First tests of crab cavities promise a luminous future

The crab cavities, a key component for the HL-LHC luminosity increase, show remarkable first test results

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Physics
29 March, 2017

2016: an exceptional year for the LHC

Particles have circulated in the LHC one last time in 2016 before the winter stop of the accelerators for maintenance

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Accelerators
06 December, 2016
Accelerators
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06 December, 2016

Great expectations from fewer collisions

This week, the LHC will ignore its motto of ‘maximum luminosity’, and perform special runs at very low luminosity

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Experiments
22 September, 2016
Experiments
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22 September, 2016

LHC report: a break from luminosity production

The LHC has been in great shape over the last few months, delivering over 20 fb-1 of integrated luminosity before the ICHEP conference

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Accelerators
17 August, 2016
Accelerators
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17 August, 2016