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  • Accelerator physicists win Enrico Fermi Prize 2023

    Accelerator physicists win Enrico Fermi Prize 2023

    The 2023 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) has been awarded to…

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  • Fast & Luminous: third place in the Open Mixte Category of the 51st CERN Relay Race

    Fast & Luminous: third place in the Open Mixte Category of the 51st CERN Relay Race

    On Wednesday 31 May 2023 at 12.15, the first ever bunch of HL-LHC particles accelerated itself around the 3.8 km circumference of the legendary CERN Relay Race.

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  • Upcoming online training on Superconducting Magnet test stands, Magnet protections and Diagnostics

    Upcoming online training on Superconducting Magnet test stands, Magnet protections and Diagnostics

    After difficult years of pandemics, the Superconducting Magnet Test Facility Workshop (SMTF), started in 2016, resumed in April 2023.

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  • 2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga

    2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga

    2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga Rama Calaga, HL-LHC WP4 Leader, has been awarded the 2022 USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Science and Technology for his outstanding leadership bringing the crab cavities in hadron colliders from concept to reality and for the first demonstration of crabbing on a hadron beam. Of the three prizes awarded every three

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  • 12th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, 19 – 22 September 2022

    12th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, 19 – 22 September 2022

    12th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, 19 – 22 September 2022 Following the 11th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting held in digital format in October 2021, the 12th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, from 19th to 22nd September 2022, as an in-person meeting. The return to an in-person meeting was chosen after consultations with all collaboration partners

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  • HiLumi Welcome Days are back

    HiLumi Welcome Days are back

    HiLumi Welcome Days are back By Irene Garcia Obrero, HL-LHC communications and outreach team On 3rd May, the HiLumi Welcome Days resumed with a first half-day event after more than two years of COVID-19 restrictions The event started with presentations by Oliver Bruning, HL-LHC Project Leader, and Héctor García Gavela, head of the Procurement, Baseline Documentation,

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  • Visit to HL-LHC Point 5

    Visit to HL-LHC Point 5 By Irene Garcia Obrero (CERN) On Friday 12 November, several HL-LHC members, including work package leaders and HLPO staff, visited the HL-LHC civil engineering works at Point 5 (Cessy, France), next to the CMS experiment, to see the latest progress. The visit, which lasted approximately two hours, was guided by

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  • Visit to the TCPC assembly workshop

    Visit to the TCPC assembly workshop By Stefano Redaelli, WP5 Leader (CERN) On 2 September, O. Brüning, HL-LHC Project Leader, was invited by S. Redaelli, WP5 leader, to visit the workshop where the crystal primary collimators (TCPCs) are being assembled. The SY/STI and the BE/CEM management (S. Gilardoni and A. Masi, respectively) and other key people involved in

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  • 11th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, 19 – 22 October 2021

    11th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, 19 – 22 October 2021 Following the 10th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting held partially by video in October 2020, the 11th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting will again be held in digital format and will take place from 19 to 22 October 2021. This format was chosen after consultations with all collaboration partners and tries to

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  • Council delegates visit new High-Luminosity LHC infrastructure | home.cern

    Council delegates visit new High-Luminosity LHC infrastructure | home.cern On 23 September, 16 CERN Council delegates visited the new underground cavern at Point 1. Read on home.cern Read more news

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