Category: 1. Project News

  • The new LHC protectors

    The new LHC protectors New kind of collimator developed for the High-Luminosity LHC project, CERN Updates. Read more news

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  • A bright future for HL-LHC

    A bright future for HL-LHC The 7th HL-LHC annual collaboration meeting in Madrid reviewed the current progress and set the goals for next year, Accelerating News. Read more news

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  • From first concept to the SPS: the challenge of the HL-LHC crab cavities cryomodules

    From first concept to the SPS: the challenge of the HL-LHC crab cavities cryomodules Crab cavities will help increase the luminosity of collisions in the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC. Read in Accelerating News Also article on home.cern Read more news

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  • Successful tests of canted correctors for HL-LHC

    Successful tests of canted correctors for HL-LHC In addition to the dipole and quadrupole magnets that guide and focus the charged particles, corrector magnets are used to cure imperfections in the magnets and compensate for alignment errors, Accelerating News. Read more news

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  • New life for an old technology: canted cosine theta magnets

    New life for an old technology: canted cosine theta magnets In the HL-LHC, two 2-metre-long canted cosine theta magnets will be positioned near the insertion region of the ATLAS and CMS experiments and will be used as corrector magnets. Read more Read more news

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  • Crab cavities get into their shells

    Crab cavities get into their shells The assembly of the new superconducting crab cavities, the testing of which is planned to take place at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) in 2018, is progressing with a steady pace and on schedule. Read more Read more news

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  • Superconductors boost acceleration

    Superconductors boost acceleration The new superconducting crab cavities being assembled at CERN, CERN Updates Read more news

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  • HL-LHC short-model magnets tests are going full speed ahead

    HL-LHC short-model magnets tests are going full speed ahead By Stefania Pandolfi There is no break for the team developing the magnets for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project. During the summer, the third in a series of short, 1.5-metre-long magnet models was successfully tested. This model is made up entirely of coils constructed at CERN and

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  • The crown jewel of the HL-LHC magnets

    The crown jewel of the HL-LHC magnets The new quadrupole magnets are being developed in the framework of a collaboration between CERN and the LHC-AUP (LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project) consortium, which involves three US laboratories.  From home.cern Available on phys.org Read more news

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  • Progress in the interaction region magnets of HL-LHC

    Progress in the interaction region magnets of HL-LHC During the past months, significant advancements have been done in the development of the interaction region magnets for HL-LHC, Accelerating News. Read more news

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