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A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023
A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023The days are getting longer, the trees are getting greener and it is time, too, for the CERN accelerator complex to reawaken. Following the...
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Kicking off Upgrades for the future operation of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) are under way in the whole accelerator complex. One of these upgrades is a new design to reduce the heating of some of...
View ArticleAccelerator Report: Beam is back in the LHC
Accelerator Report: Beam is back in the LHCOn Wednesday 22 March, the LHC machine, the injection beam lines and all the experiments were closed for the cold check-out of the LHC, an important phase in...
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Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro (1941 – 2023)
Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro (1941 – 2023)(Image: Andrea Passarelli)Accelerator physicist Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro passed away on 11 February 2023 in his hometown of Naples, Italy, after a short...
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HiLumi News: Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnet
HiLumi News: Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnetCERN and the US Accelerator Upgrade Project (AUP, a consortium of various US institutions including Fermilab, BNL and LBNL laboratories based at...
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Dernières nouvelles des accélérateurs : premiers faisceaux stables à 6,8 TeV...
Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeVFirst stable beams, as could be observed from the LHC Page 1 displays around CERN and online:...
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Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)
Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)Giorgio Brianti (right) with John Adams in 1979. (Image: CERN)Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He...
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Busy as a BE As head of the Beams department (BE), I am proud to report on a very successful recommissioning of the accelerator complex following a busy year-end technical stop (YETS), thanks to the...
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Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…
Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…Today, almost the whole accelerator complex is operational and providing beams to all the experimental facilities as scheduled. The LHC experiments...
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Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC
Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHCLHC page 1 with the filling scheme indicated in the bottom left-hand corner of the display. This is a different filling scheme to the one mentioned in the...
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Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers...
Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brillianceThe Accelerator Reportpublished on 10 May highlighted that the 2023 antiproton physics run was delayed...
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Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and...
Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performingEven the most cutting-edge machines require moments of respite. That’s why, in the early morning of...
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Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity...
Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHCOn Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season...
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Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small...
Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequencesAt 1.00 a.m. + 17 seconds on Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in...
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AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles
AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles “Plasma wakefield acceleration is like surfing,” says Edda Gschwendtner, leader of the AWAKE accelerator R&D project at CERN.AWAKE is all...
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Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress
Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progressThe interconnection between the Q1 (left) and Q2 (right) magnets when closed. (Image: CERN)The same interconnection when opened, revealing the...
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Dernières nouvelles des accélérateurs : Fuite réparée, refroidissement en cours
Dernières nouvelles des accélérateurs : Fuite réparée, refroidissement en coursL'interconnexion entre les aimants Q1 (à gauche) et Q2 (à droite) fermée. (Image: CERN)La même interconnexion, une fois...
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The LHC leak repair: a short photostory
The LHC leak repair: a short photostoryAt 1 a.m. on Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped due to an electrical perturbation. Approximately 300 milliseconds later, several magnets lost their...
View ArticleHL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets
HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets “When dealing with a 27-km-long machine whose components must be aligned to within a few tenths of a millimetre, or sometimes...
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Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions
Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions Beams are once again being injected into the Large Hadron Collider, with the status noted in real-time on LHC Page 1.On 30...
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