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The first accelerators are back in action

It’s the end of Long Shutdown 2 for the PS Booster, the first accelerator to be recommissioned, alongside Linac 4

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Accelerators
08 July, 2020
Accelerators
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08 July, 2020

Oliver Brüning becomes the new HL-LHC project leader

Oliver Brüning takes over from Lucio Rossi at the helm of the HL-LHC project as of 1 July

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Accelerators
02 July, 2020

CERN Accelerator School: Mechanical Materials Engineering | 2 - 14 November 2020

Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on Mechanical Materials Engineering for Particle Accelerators and Detectors, 2 – 14 November 2020, Sint-Michielsgestel, Holland

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Accelerators
30 June, 2020
Accelerators
Announcement
30 June, 2020

Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities

A superconducting electrical transmission line developed for the High-Luminosity LHC has set a new intensity record

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Accelerators
24 June, 2020

LS2 Report: A new schedule

As a result of the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 crisis, the injectors will restart at the end of the year and the LHC will restart in autumn 2021

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Accelerators
24 June, 2020
Accelerators
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24 June, 2020

Superconducting magnets of the future in the making at CERN

The latest CERN Courier details the promises and challenges of the new superconducting magnets being developed for increasing accelerator’s energy and luminosity

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Accelerators
22 May, 2020

Lucio Rossi receives a prize from the European Physical Society

The High-Luminosity LHC project leader has been awarded the EPS-AG Rolf Widerøe Prize for his major contributions to the field of applied superconductivity for accelerators

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Accelerators
20 May, 2020

HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment

Novel cryostat units have been installed for the High-Luminosity LHC to allow insertion of room-temperature collimators in the LHC’s 1.9 K cryostats

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Accelerators
22 April, 2020

Entering Uncharted Waters

The Large Hadron Collider began its physics programme on this day a decade ago

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Accelerators
30 March, 2020
Accelerators
Feature
30 March, 2020

A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet field

The eRMC demonstrator, consisting of two flat niobium-tin coils, has produced a peak magnetic field of 16.5 tesla, a promising result in the context of the FCC (Future Circular Collider) study

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Accelerators
25 March, 2020