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Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
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12 October, 2023

HiLumi News: Recombination dipole prototype successfully tested for the LHC’s high-luminosity upgrade

The D2 prototype magnet, developed and manufactured in Italy, has been integrated and tested in the longest HL-LHC cold mass with corrector magnets from China and CERN

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Accelerators
29 September, 2023
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29 September, 2023

Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics

In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

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Accelerators
13 September, 2023
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13 September, 2023

Accelerator Report: Beams injected into the LHC ahead of heavy ion collisions

The LHC resumes beam production, following the repair of the inner triplet vacuum leak, and gears up for heavy ion collisions

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Accelerators
01 September, 2023
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01 September, 2023

HL-LHC: successful tests validate a new remote alignment system for magnets

The many CERN-developed sensors and software programs of the FRAS (Full Remote Alignment System) have been successfully tested on a prototype magnet in preparation for the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
01 September, 2023
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01 September, 2023

The LHC leak repair: a short photostory

Scroll through the photo diary to relive the repair of the LHC

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Accelerators
11 August, 2023
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11 August, 2023

Accelerator Report: Leak repaired, cooling in progress

Despite challenging working conditions, the vacuum leak caused by the quench that occurred on 17 July was repaired in less than 10 days

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07 August, 2023
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07 August, 2023

AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles

Plasma accelerator AWAKE has tested scalability and is all set to begin its second phase of data taking with an upgraded plasma source

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Accelerators
27 July, 2023

Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation

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Accelerators
19 July, 2023