Ten years after it was approved, CERN’s new accelerator is officially inaugurated

At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

After having accelerated a beam up to the design energy of 160 MeV, Linac 4 is now entering a new phase of its commissioning

The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones

The new linear accelerator, which from 2020 will be the first link in the accelerator chain, has entered a new stage of its commissioning

Linac 4 now reaching milestone energy of 50MeV to act as replacement for ageing Linac2, before taking over at head of accelerator chain in 2020

After years of design, prototyping and manufacturing, the Linac4 Drift Tube Linac is being assembled at CERN

The first new PI-Mode Structure (PIMS) cavity for Linac 4 is under assembly at CERN

On 14 November, the first H- beam was accelerated to the energy of 3 MeV in Linac 4

This month a beam of negative hydrogen ions was injected into the first accelerator module of Linac 4