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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Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage. Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history.

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Accelerators
15 June, 2018
Accelerators
Press release
15 June, 2018

High-Luminosity LHC Gallery

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Accelerators

World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC

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Engineering
29 May, 2018
Engineering
News
29 May, 2018

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
News
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
News
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