Tag: WP13 – Beam Instrumentation

  • Read the 10th HiLumi LHC annual newsletter!

    Read the 10th HiLumi LHC annual newsletter!

    The 10th edition of the annual newsletter has been released. Read it here!

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  • Beam gas curtain monitor becomes an operational instrument for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider | Accelerating News

    Beam gas curtain monitor becomes an operational instrument for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider | Accelerating News

    By Hao Zhang (Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool) on Accelerating News Following a positive evaluation during a review of transverse beam profile monitoring for the HiLumi LHC in September 2025, in February 2026 the BGC monitor was approved as an important addition to the beam instrumentation baseline for the HiLumi era. “It’s a huge success and

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  • First HL-LHC Beam Position Monitor ready for installation

    First HL-LHC Beam Position Monitor ready for installation

    This May, the first Beam Position Monitor (BPM) for the HL-LHC finished its in-house production in the CERN ateliers. The BPM is now ready for assembly with the new beam screen and will be installed in the first HL-LHC Inner Triplet cryomagnet (Q1). 

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  • HL-LHC Beam Halo Monitoring System Review

    HL-LHC Beam Halo Monitoring System Review

    As a milestone of the HL-LHC Beam Halo Working Group activities, on the 18th of December 2024 a review of the HL-LHC beam halo monitoring system—one of the deliverables of the HL-LHC Project Work Package 13—took place at CERN.

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  • Beam Gas Curtain installed in the Large Hadron Collider

    Beam Gas Curtain installed in the Large Hadron Collider

    By Alexandra Welsch (U. Liverpool) – Non-invasive beam profile monitor using supersonic gas jet furthers our understanding of the beam dynamics and supports new discoveries, Accelerating News.

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  • BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN

    BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN

    BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN By Raymond Veness, Deputy WP13 Leader (CERN) The 8th Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) Collaboration Meeting was held at CERN and by Zoom in early April. The two-day meeting, organized by WP13 in collaboration with Cockcroft Institute (CI) and the GSI, brought together senior scientists and the collaboration members from these institutions, including a

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  • Phase 2 of Large Hadron Collider upgrade project launched in the UK

    Phase 2 of Large Hadron Collider upgrade project launched in the UK By Rob Appleby (University of Manchester). Read more in Accelerating News | Issue 34. Read more news

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  • Electron Lens Test Stand at CERN

    Electron Lens Test Stand at CERN At CERN, an option of installing Hollow Electron Lenses for HL-LHC is being studied. Full details in Accelerating News | Issue #28. Read more news

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  • Accelerating News issue 14

    Accelerating News issue 14 Issue 14 of Accelerating News is out with the 1st hardware for the IR magnets and hollow e-lensesRead more Read more news

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