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Join us for “Voxxed Days” at CERN Science Gateway

A new Voxxed Days event is coming to CERN on 22 and 23 January 2024, and everyone is invited

Announcement
Computing
06 November, 2023
Computing
Announcement
06 November, 2023

ICRC and CERN cooperate on R&D in technologies for humanitarian action

Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came to CERN on Friday, 24 March for the first in a series of knowledge-sharing sessions on free and open source technologies

News
Computing
24 March, 2023

Cool kickers for the HL-LHC

The first “MKI-Cool” was installed in early January – water-cooled ferrite cylinders will protect the LHC’s kicker magnets from increased heat load in the high-luminosity era

News
Accelerators
25 January, 2023
Accelerators
News
25 January, 2023

HiLumi News: 7.2-m-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN reaches nominal current for the first time

The 7.2-metre-long version of this vital HL-LHC component reached nominal current plus an operational margin corresponding to a coil peak field of 11.5 T at 1.9 K during a test in SM18

News
Accelerators
25 January, 2023
Accelerators
News
25 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

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

A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders

An LHC quadrupole whose beam screen had been coated with a fine layer of carbon displayed minimal heat load in comparison to other magnets, constituting a promising step in eliminating electron clouds in future particle accelerators

News
Engineering
26 October, 2022
Engineering
News
26 October, 2022

CERN joins with leaders from research and industry to propose an Open Quantum Institute

The Open Quantum Institute will work to ensure that emerging quantum technologies are put to use to tackle key societal challenges

News
Computing
13 October, 2022

Registration for “Expanding Your Horizons” is now open!

On Saturday, 12 November 2022, “Expanding Your Horizons” will be back with a day full of fun and hands-on activities aimed at motivating girls to engage with science and maths

Announcement
Knowledge sharing
09 October, 2022
Knowledge sharing
Announcement
09 October, 2022

HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

News
Accelerators
19 July, 2022

AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields

The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients

News
Experiments
18 July, 2022

HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

News
Accelerators
14 July, 2022