High-Luminosity LHC

The High-Luminosity LHC is a project to increase the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 10 beyond its design value by 2020.

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Are you up for the TrackML challenge?

Can machine learning assist high-energy physics in discovering and characterising new particles?

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Knowledge sharing
07 May, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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07 May, 2018

Discussing future colliders at FCC Week 2018

Some 500 scientists from 147 institutes met in Amsterdam for the 2018 Future Circular Collider (FCC) week from 9 to 13 April

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Accelerators
02 May, 2018
Accelerators
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02 May, 2018

Crabs settled in the tunnel

After several years of preparatory work, the first crab cavity prototypes have been installed in the SPS tunnel and are ready for testing

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Engineering
22 April, 2018
Engineering
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22 April, 2018

Young researchers become innovators

CERN researchers demonstrate entrepreneurial potential during the HL-LHC and FCC Innovation Course

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Knowledge sharing
13 April, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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13 April, 2018

CERN meets industry at the Big Science Business Forum

The world’s first Big Science Business Forum gathered 18 of the most advanced big-science organisations together to meet European companies

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Knowledge sharing
05 March, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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05 March, 2018

The new LHC protectors

New collimators are being installed and tested in the LHC. They will improve its protection and prepare it for higher luminosity in the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
27 February, 2018
Accelerators
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27 February, 2018

Collimators: the LHC’s bodyguards

The LHC shows its teeth each time protons misbehave

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Experiments
21 February, 2018
Experiments
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21 February, 2018

Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on

The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC

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Accelerators
08 December, 2017
Accelerators
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08 December, 2017

At the LHC, tomorrow is already here

Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)

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Accelerators
05 December, 2017
Accelerators
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05 December, 2017

New life for an old technology: canted cosine theta magnets

CERN is developing a corrector magnet for the High-Luminosity project that has a peculiar design (to say nothing of its name…)

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Engineering
10 October, 2017
Engineering
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10 October, 2017

Crab cavities get into their shells

The two crab cavities have been put in their helium vessels and are currently being installed in their cryostat

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Engineering
26 September, 2017
Engineering
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26 September, 2017

HL-LHC short-model magnets tests are going full speed ahead

During the summer, the third of a series of short, 1.5-metre-long magnet models for the HL-LHC project was successfully tested

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Engineering
29 August, 2017