LHC Injectors Upgrade

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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
News
09 November, 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

The SPS beam dump

On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump

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Accelerators
25 April, 2022
Accelerators
News
25 April, 2022

New schedule for CERN’s accelerators and experiments

The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Accelerators
27 November, 2020
Accelerators
News
27 November, 2020

LS2 Report: A new schedule

As a result of the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 crisis, the injectors will restart at the end of the year and the LHC will restart in autumn 2021

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Accelerators
24 June, 2020
Accelerators
News
24 June, 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
News
21 February, 2020

The time of the LHC Injectors Upgrade project

After years of careful preparation, the LHC’s second long shutdown, LS2, is now under way. Over the coming 18 months, the upgrade of the LHC’s injector complex will be the primary focus for technical teams across the Organization

Opinion
Accelerators
26 February, 2019
Accelerators
Opinion
26 February, 2019

So long, Linac2, and thanks for all the protons

After 40 years of service, the linear accelerator has shut down and passed the baton to Linac4, which will take over as the first link in the accelerator chain

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Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
News
13 November, 2018

More powerful protectors for higher luminosity

An important protection component for the High-Luminosity LHC has been successfully tested at the HiRadMat facility

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Engineering
29 October, 2018
Engineering
News
29 October, 2018

Keeping a close watch over the beams

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Accelerators
09 July, 2018
Accelerators
News
09 July, 2018

A new acceleration system for the PS Booster

The first of the 28 radio-frequency cavities for the PS Booster’s new acceleration system is ready

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Accelerators
18 July, 2017
Accelerators
News
18 July, 2017

EYETS Report: 2017, a busy year ahead for the accelerators

As part of the EYETS activities, the Linac3 ion source was converted to a xenon ion source

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Accelerators
13 March, 2017