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There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light.

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New small-scale accelerator to help study heritage artworks

A collaboration with INFN will see CERN technology optimised for use in cultural-heritage projects

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Knowledge sharing
29 January, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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29 January, 2019

International collaboration publishes concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submits its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication

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Accelerators
15 January, 2019
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Press release
15 January, 2019

Key plans for the next two years of the LHC

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Accelerators
10 December, 2018
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10 December, 2018

Crystal cleaning the LHC beam

In October, for the first time, crystal collimators were used to improve the performance of the beam cleaning process at the LHC during a physics run

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Accelerators
27 November, 2018
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27 November, 2018

So long, Linac2, and thanks for all the protons

After 40 years of service, the linear accelerator has shut down and passed the baton to Linac4, which will take over as the first link in the accelerator chain

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Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
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13 November, 2018

High-Luminosity LHC

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Booster - 4K footage

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SPS footage - 4K

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PS in 4K

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Success for AWAKE

The experiment successfully accelerated electrons with plasma wakefields generated by protons, a world first

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Experiments
10 September, 2018
Experiments
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10 September, 2018

AWAKE successfully accelerates electrons

Proton beams from the SPS at CERN were used to generate plasma waves upon which the electrons “surfed”

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Experiments
29 August, 2018
Experiments
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29 August, 2018