LHC Run 3

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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
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08 October, 2024

Accelerator Report: LHC Run 3 achieves record-breaking integrated luminosity

On Sunday, 1 September, the LHC integrated luminosity for Run 3 (2022–2025) equalled that of Run 2 (2015–2018)

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Accelerators
04 September, 2024
Accelerators
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04 September, 2024

ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC

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Physics
26 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
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27 June, 2024

Accelerator Report: Setting the stage for a productive summer

We are optimistic that we will have a successful luminosity production period this summer

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Accelerators
12 June, 2024

Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases

The LHC injector chain has been switched to a new beam production scheme to explore its potential to produce more collisions in the LHC and to compare its performance to that of the standard LHC beam

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Accelerators
30 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

Almost the whole accelerator complex is now in “physics mode”, routinely delivering the various types of beam to the different physics facilities and experiments. Notably, the intensity ramp-up in the LHC is progressing remarkably well

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Accelerators
16 April, 2024

Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024

This marks the beginning of physics for the third year of Run 3 of CERN’s flagship particle accelerator

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Accelerators
05 April, 2024

ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions

The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018

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Experiments
01 December, 2023
Experiments
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01 December, 2023

Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024

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Accelerators
09 November, 2023
Accelerators
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09 November, 2023

Accelerator Report: Ending the 2023 run with a quench

Another few days and the last 2023 LHC beams will be dumped, hopefully by the machine protection system following a controlled magnet quench

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Accelerators
26 October, 2023
Accelerators
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26 October, 2023

Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV

Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023

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Accelerators
27 April, 2023