Category: 1. Project News
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Upgrade to Large Hadron Collider underway
Upgrade to Large Hadron Collider underway Scientists, engineers and technicians from the UK have embarked on a £26 million project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva. Read more: stfc.ukri.org Read more news
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HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment
HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment Two innovative cryostat units have been inserted along the continuous cryostats of the LHC, on both sides of LHC Point 2, Accelerating News | Issue#33 (Article by Anaïs Schaeffer, CERN). Read more news
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Installation of the TDIS unit for the High-Luminosity LHC
Installation of the TDIS unit for the High-Luminosity LHC Nearly one year after the start of the assembly activities the first 3-module-device Target Dump Injection Segmented (TDIS) unit is ready to be installed, Accelerating News | Issue#33 (Article by David Carbajo Perez, CERN) Read more news
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High-Luminosity LHC: ready for injection
High-Luminosity LHC: ready for injection By Corinne Pravalorio (CERN) on home.cern A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC. Read on home.cern Read more news
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Oliver Brüning becomes the new HL-LHC project leader
Oliver Brüning becomes the new HL-LHC project leader Oliver Brüning takes over from Lucio Rossi at the helm of the HL-LHC project as of 1 July, CERN News. Later article published in the CERN Courier Read more news
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Farewell Lucio – Congratulations Oliver
Farewell Lucio – Congratulations Oliver On June 30, 2020, after 10 years of leadership, Lucio Rossi officially handed over the HiLumi project to Oliver Bruning, the new HL-LHC project leader. On this occasion, the HL-LHC Management invited Fabiola Gianotti, CERN DG, Frederick Bordry, Director for Accelerators and Technololgy and Lluis Miralles Verge, Head of the SMB
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Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities
Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities A superconducting electrical transmission line developed for the High-Luminosity LHC has set a new intensity record, CERN Bulletin. Read more news
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Ready for testing
Ready for testing Read more news
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Superconducting magnets of the future in the making at CERN
Superconducting magnets of the future in the making at CERN The May/June issue of the CERN Courier devotes its cover and a feature article to developments in superconducting magnets, CERN Bulletin. Read more news
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An HL-LHC gallery section ready for painting!
An HL-LHC gallery section ready for painting! The HL-LHC civil engineering works at Point 1 are progressing day by day. The UA17 section shown on the photo is ready for painting. The diameter of this gallery is about 6 m. The two walls at the back-side correspond to the mobile-shielding walls with openings of 1.5-m wide.