YETS

10 results

Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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Accelerators
10 May, 2023

The SPS beam dump

On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump

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Accelerators
25 April, 2022
Accelerators
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25 April, 2022

The end of YETS: awakening from hibernation

The Year-End Technical Stop drew to a close on 9 March. Read about the LHC plans the last year of Run 2

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Engineering
12 March, 2018
Engineering
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12 March, 2018

Accelerator hibernation ends

As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground

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Engineering
09 March, 2018
Engineering
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09 March, 2018

The new LHC protectors

New collimators are being installed and tested in the LHC. They will improve its protection and prepare it for higher luminosity in the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
27 February, 2018
Accelerators
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27 February, 2018

What’s YETS for the experiments?

What repairs have been made at the experiments during the year-end technical stop

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At CERN
25 February, 2018
At CERN
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25 February, 2018

SPS: last injector back up and running

The Super Proton Synchrotron is the last accelerator that had to awaken before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider in 2017

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Accelerators
24 April, 2017
Accelerators
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24 April, 2017

What happened while the LHC slept over winter?

A round up of the upgrades and maintenance during the 2016/2017 extended year-end technical stop

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At CERN
10 April, 2017

Open-heart surgery for CMS

The CMS detector’s tracking system, which determines the trajectories of charged particles, is being replaced this week at Point 5

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Experiments
28 February, 2017
Experiments
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28 February, 2017

EYETS report: so far, so good

The 2016 – 2017 extended year-end technical stop features powering tests, magnet exchange, dump replacement, emptying the LHC of helium, and lifts!

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At CERN
31 January, 2017
At CERN
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31 January, 2017