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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Flexible and accessible, the HiRadMat facility celebrates its tenth anniversary

Since its construction in 2011, HiRadMat has been a unique experimental facility for testing materials under beam impact

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Experiments
05 November, 2021
Experiments
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05 November, 2021

Detectors for a new era of ATLAS physics

The New Small Wheel system joins the ATLAS experiment after nearly a decade of design and construction

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Experiments
09 November, 2021
Experiments
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09 November, 2021

The North Area is getting a fresh look

The North Area, part of the Super Proton Synchrotron complex, will see a major two-phased facelift in the upcoming years

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Accelerators
27 October, 2021
Accelerators
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27 October, 2021

Council delegates visit new High-Luminosity LHC infrastructure

On 23 September, 16 CERN Council delegates visited the new underground cavern at Point 1

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At CERN
28 September, 2021

CERN acquires four new buildings for the High-Luminosity LHC

Four buildings set to house technical infrastructure for the future accelerator were delivered to CERN by contractors between June and September

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At CERN
15 September, 2021

Qualifying HL-LHC magnets and cavities at Uppsala University

Uppsala University is upgrading its FREIA Laboratory, initially constructed for the ESS project, to test superconducting magnets and crab cavities for the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
24 June, 2021

The High-Luminosity LHC project takes shape at Point 1

The construction of an underground cavern at Point 1, which will house equipment for the High-Luminosity LHC, has been successfully completed

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Accelerators
09 June, 2021

The superconducting coils for the 11 T dipoles have been delivered

35 niobium–tin superconducting coils have been manufactured as part of a fruitful collaboration with the company General Electric. They will be used in the 11 T dipoles for the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
28 April, 2021

CERN and Fermilab map out HL-LHC collaboration

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between CERN and Fermilab, signed on 23 March, details Fermilab’s contributions to the High-Luminosity LHC project

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At CERN
24 March, 2021

New schedule for CERN’s accelerators and experiments

The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Accelerators
27 November, 2020
Accelerators
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27 November, 2020

LS2 Report: increased cryogenic power at LHC Point 4

At LHC Point 4, a refrigerator that cools helium from room temperature to 4.5 K (-268.65 °C) has undergone major improvements in preparation for the HL-LHC

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Accelerators
14 October, 2020
Accelerators
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14 October, 2020