Super Proton Synchrotron

At 7 kilometres in circumference, the Super Proton Synchrotron is the second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex. It provides a stepping stone between the Proton Synchrotron and the Large Hadron Collider.

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Accelerator Report: Preparing the LHC and its injector complex for the 2024 lead-ion run

The physics run for the SPS North Area will start on 4 November, followed by the LHC lead-ion physics run on 6 November, and the PS East Area on 11 November

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Accelerators
20 September, 2024
Accelerators
News
20 September, 2024

Bringing black hole jets down to Earth

The Fireball collaboration has used CERN’s HiRadMat facility to produce an analogue of the jets of matter and antimatter that stream out of some black holes and neutron stars

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Physics
13 June, 2024
Physics
News
13 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: Already a fifth of the way there

The LHC is performing well and the injector complex is treating its experimental users to a high level of beam availability

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Accelerators
15 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics

In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

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Accelerators
13 September, 2023
Accelerators
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13 September, 2023

Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

Obituary
Accelerators
05 May, 2023
Accelerators
Obituary
05 May, 2023

A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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Accelerators
29 March, 2023

Accelerator Report: The CERN accelerator complex is awakening from hibernation

The last LHC beam of 2022 was dumped in the early morning of Monday, 28 November; 17 weeks later, on Monday, 27 March 2023, we plan to inject the first beam of the year into the LHC

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Accelerators
09 March, 2023