High-Luminosity LHC

The High-Luminosity LHC is a project to increase the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 10 beyond its design value by 2020.

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CERN highlights in 2024 celebrating 70 years

For its 70th anniversary year, CERN honours its contributions to fundamental research, innovation and international collaboration.

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At CERN
20 December, 2024
At CERN
News
20 December, 2024

The test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC welcomes its first magnets

The installation of the High-Luminosity LHC test facility continues with the arrival of two magnet assemblies

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Accelerators
12 December, 2024
Accelerators
News
12 December, 2024

CERN70: Preparing for the future

Gian Giudice is Head of CERN’s Theoretical Physics department

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Physics
12 December, 2024
Physics
Feature
12 December, 2024

A test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC

The major upgrade of the LHC will be tested in an above-ground facility that has recently had its first superconducting system installed

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Engineering
09 October, 2024
Engineering
News
09 October, 2024

New schedule for CERN's accelerators

The LHC's third run has been extended until July 2026. The long technical stop that will follow will be extended by four months, postponing the start-up of the High-Luminosity LHC until June 2030

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Accelerators
08 October, 2024
Accelerators
News
08 October, 2024

Updated schedule for CERN’s accelerators

The timing and duration of the third long shutdown (LS3) of the Large Hadron Collider and injector complex has changed, here’s why

Opinion
Accelerators
04 October, 2024
Accelerators
Opinion
04 October, 2024

How can physicists make particle accelerators more efficient?

Using AI, machine learning and automation, the Efficient Particle Accelerator (EPA) project aims to boost the efficiency of CERN's accelerators for the high luminosity era and beyond

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Accelerators
11 September, 2024
Accelerators
News
11 September, 2024

HiLumi News: new large helium tanks

Four large helium tanks will supply the new High-Luminosity LHC refrigerators

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Engineering
18 July, 2024
Engineering
News
18 July, 2024

New beam dumps: cut along the dotted line

Dismantling a beam dump is a real conundrum – that’s what the 2020 “autopsy” concluded. To solve it, the new spare LHC beam dumps have been made easier to “cut”

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Accelerators
27 June, 2024
Accelerators
News
27 June, 2024

Upgrading the LHCb sub-detectors for the HL-LHC

The LHCb experiment is revamping its electromagnetic calorimeter with new high-performance modules and equipping its ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors with very fast electronics

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Experiments
06 June, 2024

HiLumi News: The HL-LHC’s cold powering system successfully passed the tests

The new HL-LHC cold powering system, which includes the high-temperature superconducting link colloquially known as “the python”, has successfully passed its first cold powering tests

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Accelerators
28 May, 2024

The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors

The recently launched Next-Generation Triggers project is set to remarkably increase the efficiency, sensitivity and modelling of CERN experiments

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Computing
11 April, 2024