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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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15 May, 2024

Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges

In the last two weeks, the LHC teams have encountered two main challenges that have led to some changes to the filling scheme

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Accelerators
03 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

Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved

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Accelerators
28 March, 2024

Observing accelerator resonances in 4D

For the first time, scientists at CERN, in collaboration with scientists at GSI, have been able to measure a coupled resonance structure that may cause particle loss in accelerators

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Accelerators
20 March, 2024
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20 March, 2024

Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC

On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC, kicking off the 2024 LHC beam commissioning

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Accelerators
14 March, 2024

You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

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Accelerators
14 March, 2024

Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

The injection of the first protons into the LHC is scheduled for 11 March, but could be brought forward by a few days if all goes well

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Accelerators
29 February, 2024
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29 February, 2024

CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break

A new physics run is about to begin! The first particle beams should reach the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 11 March

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Accelerators
22 February, 2024
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22 February, 2024