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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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

The future of the LHC takes shape

New magnets designed for the High-Luminosity LHC - the Large Hadron Collider upgrade project – are in the prototype phase

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Accelerators
23 June, 2017
Accelerators
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23 June, 2017

The crown jewel of the HL-LHC magnets

The new quadrupole magnets designed for the insertion regions for the LHC upgrade exploit cutting-edge technological innovations

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Engineering
20 June, 2017
Engineering
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20 June, 2017

CERN is keeping its ear to the ground

CERN has set up three seismic monitoring stations to listen to the earth’s vibrations and their impact on the LHC

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Engineering
25 April, 2017
Engineering
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25 April, 2017

First tests of crab cavities promise a luminous future

The crab cavities, a key component for the HL-LHC luminosity increase, show remarkable first test results

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Physics
29 March, 2017

Silicon sandwiches feed LHC’s upgraded collision appetite

CMS high-luminosity LHC upgrade requires new silicon sensors, to better distinguish between particles from multiple collisions

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Experiments
29 March, 2017

Linac 4 reached its energy goal

After having accelerated a beam up to the design energy of 160 MeV, Linac 4 is now entering a new phase of its commissioning

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Accelerators
14 November, 2016
Accelerators
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14 November, 2016

Once upon a time, there was a superconducting niobium-tin...

The production of the new niobium-tin cables for the high-performance superconducting magnets of the HL-LHC is now in full swing at CERN

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Engineering
25 July, 2016