Category: 1. Project News

  • 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.

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  • A first for the PRISMAC project and HL-LHC

    A first for the PRISMAC project and HL-LHC Spain has successfully developed the first combined superconducting dipole magnet prototype for HL-LHC. This prototype is part of the Spanish PRISMAC project, led by CIEMAT and with the participation of the CDTI. Read more news

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  • High-Precision Digitizer for High Luminosity LHC

    High-Precision Digitizer for High Luminosity LHC “The CERN Electrical Power Converters Group developed a new metrology-grade digitizer, part of that high-precision measurement system. The new digitizer will be employed in the power converters of the Inner Triplet quadrupoles and separation/recombination dipole magnets of the HL-LHC”. Read in Accelerating News Read more news

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  • HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested | CERN Courier

    HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested | CERN Courier By Matthew Chalmers (CERN) in the CERN Courier “A quadrupole magnet for the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has been tested successfully in the US, attaining a conductor peak field of 11.4 T – a record for a focusing magnet ready for installation in an accelerator”. Read in the

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  • A breakthrough for high luminosity

    A breakthrough for high luminosity The underground structures of the High-Luminosity LHC have been connected to the LHC tunnel. Read on home.cern Read more news

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  • A new schedule for the LHC and its successor

    A new schedule for the LHC and its successor The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year. Read on home.cern Read more news

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  • Framatome awarded contract to support research at CERN

    Framatome awarded contract to support research at CERN Framatome has been awarded a contract from the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) to support research that will inform the development of new materials to be used in the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, a major upgrade to the existing Large Hadron Collider. Full details in Framatome Press

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  • The first TDIS (injection Protection Absorber) is all set for installation at Point 2

    The first TDIS (injection Protection Absorber) is all set for installation at Point 2 The first TDIS (Injection Protection Absorber) is ready for installation at Point 2 in February 2020. On 19 December 2019, the HL-LHC Project and CERN Management congratulated the teams involved in the successful construction of this state-of-the art device. Read more

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  • The HL-LHC underground structures and the LHC tunnel are connected!

    The HL-LHC underground structures and the LHC tunnel are connected! Read on home.cern Read more news

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  • Aligning the HL-LHC magnets with interferometry

    Aligning the HL-LHC magnets with interferometry CERN surveyors have just finalised a system that can determine, in real time, the position of certain components inside the (sealed) cryostats of the future High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Read more Read more news

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