On 23 October, the PS returned to the Operations group’s hands. Beam commissioning in the accelerator is scheduled for 1 March 2021

At LHC Point 4, a refrigerator that cools helium from room temperature to 4.5 K (-268.65 °C) has undergone major improvements in preparation for the HL-LHC

The DISMAC project is coming to an end: the last of the 1232 interconnections was closed in August and the cool-down of the machine will now begin

Linac 4 has taken over from the retired Linac 2 as the first accelerator in the LHC injection chain

Two new internal beam dumps and a new septum magnet have been installed in the PS as part of the LIU project

A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC

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

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

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

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