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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
Novel cryostat units have been installed for the High-Luminosity LHC to allow insertion of room-temperature collimators in the LHC’s 1.9 K cryostats
The LHC’s external beam dumps are currently being upgraded ready for Run 3
Two new beam dumps are ready to be installed in the Proton Synchrotron
CERN’s oldest working accelerator has a new injection kicker magnet and will soon receive a new septum as well
On 14 January, the Directors gave their traditional review of the year gone by to a packed CERN Main Auditorium
The DISMAC project’s teams have insulated the 1232nd – and last – diode of the LHC
Parts of the infrastructure in the vast North Area, which is supplied by the Super Proton Synchrotron, are being renovated
The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year
Work is in progress to modernise the fire protection system in the SPS
Work to renovate CERN’s oldest accelerator continues as part of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project
A new tracker made of scintillating fibres will be installed in the LHCb experiment during the ongoing shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider