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The accelerator complex and Antimatter Factory delivered their last beams, marking the end of the third run and the start of major upgrade work to prepare for the HiLumi era

By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern

Bettina Mikulec, Leader of CERN’s Operations Group (left), hands over the baton – symbolised by a miniature superconducting magnet from the LHC – to Jean-Philippe Tock, Head of the LS3 Coordination Team (right), in front of Mark Thomson, CERN Director-General (second from left), and Oliver Brüning, CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology (third from left). Image: CERN

CERN’s injector complex and Antimatter Factory took their final steps towards Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) this morning, as the last particle beams were extracted and the machines fell silent. This milestone follows the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in June, which marked the beginning of LS3 for the Laboratory’s flagship accelerator.

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