SPS

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SPS: last injector back up and running

The Super Proton Synchrotron is the last accelerator that had to awaken before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider in 2017

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Accelerators
24 April, 2017
Accelerators
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24 April, 2017

Using a crystal to extract beam?

A new slow-extraction technique using a silicon crystal aims to reduce beam losses by a factor of four

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Engineering
15 February, 2017
Engineering
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15 February, 2017

NA64 hunts the mysterious dark photon

NA64 is a new experiment at CERN searching for a particle called the dark photon, which might act as a bridge to the universe’s invisible, dark sector

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Experiments
25 November, 2016
Experiments
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25 November, 2016

LHC pushes limits of performance

The LHC performance continued to surpass expectations when this week it achieved 2220 proton bunches

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Accelerators
19 August, 2016
Accelerators
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19 August, 2016

Happy birthday, Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 and one of the pioneers of neutrino research, celebrates his 95th birthday today.

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Accelerators
25 May, 2016
Accelerators
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25 May, 2016

Beams come knocking on the LHC's door

Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC

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Accelerators
24 November, 2014
Accelerators
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24 November, 2014