Accelerator Report: Pushing the LHC towards HiLumi LHC conditions… and cut!

During its final days of operation, the LHC was tested under high-luminosity conditions. And on 29 June, the Operations team handed over the key of the LHC… but stay tuned, the injectors are still running

By Matteo Solfaroli (CERN)

The final weeks of Run 3 for the LHC have been among the busiest of its entire operational period. With physics production successfully completed on 14 June, the machine entered a two-week programme dedicated to studies with high-intensity beams, followed by a quench campaign. These activities were scheduled after the completion of the physics programme to avoid any risk to data taking for the experiments.