Thomas Hortala

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Looking back on 50 years of hadron colliders

This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built

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Accelerators
26 January, 2021
Accelerators
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26 January, 2021

CERN intensifies collaboration with Brazil through scientific agreement with leading research centre

An agreement between CERN and the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) was signed on 4 December 2020

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At CERN
08 December, 2020

LS2 Report: first beam inside the upgraded HIE-ISOLDE facility

Upgrades and repairs of the HIE-ISOLDE linear accelerator will enable experiments to delve deeper than ever into the physics of radioactive isotopes

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Accelerators
10 November, 2020
Accelerators
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10 November, 2020

MADMAX and CERN’s Morpurgo magnet

A new collaboration, MADMAX, will seize the chance to use a CERN magnet named Morpurgo to test their dark-matter prototype

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Experiments
10 November, 2020
Experiments
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10 November, 2020

The cabling of the LHC detectors moves up a gear thanks to the automation of testing

The development of the “HiPotCT” system initiated by the cabling team of EN-EA-AS has considerably increased the speed of cabling activities in the LHC detectors

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Engineering
03 November, 2020
Engineering
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03 November, 2020

LS2 Report: waiting for antiprotons...

In the AD hall, a beam of H- ions has reached the GBAR and ALPHA experiments, marking the end of the installation of new transfer lines from the ELENA deceleration ring

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Accelerators
28 October, 2020
Accelerators
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28 October, 2020

A new coating technique for deflecting crab cavities

A team from the Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings group is studying a method of niobium coating by sputtering for use in future accelerators

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Engineering
04 August, 2020

A CERN-led international collaboration develops 3D-printed neutrino detectors

A 3D-printed “super-cube” scintillator would be the first occurrence of additive manufacturing being used in particle detectors and would allow more precise data collection

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Experiments
22 June, 2020

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Higgs boson–top quark interaction

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction

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Physics
29 April, 2020

LS2 Report: innovation to stop protons in their tracks

Two new beam dumps are ready to be installed in the Proton Synchrotron

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Accelerators
21 February, 2020
Accelerators
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21 February, 2020

A new life for AMS

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has left the International Space Station after a six-month stay during which he contributed to repairing the AMS experiment

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Experiments
06 February, 2020
Experiments
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06 February, 2020