Long Shutdown 2

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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

HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment

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

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Accelerators
22 April, 2020

LS2 Report: Consolidation of the LHC’s external beam dumps

The LHC’s external beam dumps are currently being upgraded ready for Run 3

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Accelerators
11 March, 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

LS2 Report: PS prepared for higher injection energies

CERN’s oldest working accelerator has a new injection kicker magnet and will soon receive a new septum as well

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Accelerators
11 February, 2020
Accelerators
News
11 February, 2020

2019 in review

On 14 January, the Directors gave their traditional review of the year gone by to a packed CERN Main Auditorium

Opinion
At CERN
29 January, 2020
At CERN
Opinion
29 January, 2020

Final stretch for diode insulation in the LHC

The DISMAC project’s teams have insulated the 1232nd – and last – diode of the LHC

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Accelerators
29 January, 2020
Accelerators
News
29 January, 2020

LS2 Report: Focus on the North area

Parts of the infrastructure in the vast North Area, which is supplied by the Super Proton Synchrotron, are being renovated

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Engineering
15 January, 2020
Engineering
News
15 January, 2020

A new schedule for the LHC and its successor

The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year

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Accelerators
13 December, 2019
Accelerators
News
13 December, 2019

LS2 Report: New fire protection equipment in the SPS

Work is in progress to modernise the fire protection system in the SPS

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Accelerators
10 December, 2019
Accelerators
News
10 December, 2019

LS2 Report: The PS is rejuvenated for its 60th birthday

Work to renovate CERN’s oldest accelerator continues as part of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project

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Accelerators
25 November, 2019
Accelerators
News
25 November, 2019

LS2 Report: LHCb looks to the future with SciFi detector

A new tracker made of scintillating fibres will be installed in the LHCb experiment during the ongoing shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider

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Experiments
12 November, 2019
Experiments
News
12 November, 2019