Tag: Collaboration

  • Passing the baton: Markus Zerlauth is the new HL-LHC Project Leader

    Passing the baton: Markus Zerlauth is the new HL-LHC Project Leader

    As of today, Wednesday 1st October 2025, Markus Zerlauth is the new HL-LHC Project Leader, taking over from Oliver Brüning. Markus brings with him his thirteen years in the project

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  • Third magnet from the USA delivered!

    Third magnet from the USA delivered!

    After a long journey from Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, the third cryo-assembly (named LQXFA04) from the United States Accelerator Upgrade Program (US-AUP) has been successfully delivered to CERN.

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  • Annual HL-LHC Newsletter Released!

    Annual HL-LHC Newsletter Released!

    In this critical time for the HL-LHC Project, with all teams – at CERN and our numerous collaborators – working towards Long Shutdown 3, we take a look at the progress of the past year in the annual project newsletter.

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  • First RFD cold test at TRIUMF, Canada

    First RFD cold test at TRIUMF, Canada

    The HiLumi Project Canadian contribution is now really kicking off with the reception of the first prototype RFD cavity, contributed by the US-AUP collaboration.

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  • CERN’s High-Luminosity LHC: progress, challenges, and what is to come | Accelerating News

    CERN’s High-Luminosity LHC: progress, challenges, and what is to come | Accelerating News

    In this Q&A with HL-LHC Project Leader Oliver Brüning, we take a look at the past year for the HL-LHC Project and what’s to come in 2025.

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  • Important milestones achieved in the HL-LHC IT String 27 November, 2024

    Important milestones achieved in the HL-LHC IT String 27 November, 2024

    Following the installation of the superconducting link, significant progress has been made on the IT String test facility, part of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)

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  • Completion of the HL-LHC Cold Powering Collaboration Agreement with Uppsala University (DFHX and DFHM)

    Completion of the HL-LHC Cold Powering Collaboration Agreement with Uppsala University (DFHX and DFHM)

    The Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) Superconducting Links (SC-links) of the HL-LHC Cold Powering Systems (HL-LHC Work Package 6A) terminate at their warm (20 K) end in complex cryostats, called DFHX for the Triplets and DFHM for the Matching Sections.

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  • 14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting in Genoa, Italy

    14th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting in Genoa, Italy

    The 14th Collaboration Meeting took place in Genoa, Italy, from 7th-10th October 2024 and brought together nearly 200 participants from across the project, from both CERN and the Project’s collaborators.

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  • HL-LHC Collaboration Board Newsletter #8 – now available

    HL-LHC Collaboration Board Newsletter #8 – now available

    The 8th issue of the annual HL-LHC Collaboration Board Newsletter is now available!

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  • UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade

    UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade

    The first pre-series cryomodule equipped with superconducting Radio Frequency Dipole (RFD) crab cavities was completed in October 2023 at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s Daresbury Laboratory as a collaboration between HL-LHC-UK and CERN

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