By Emil Kaijanen, Francois-Xavier Nuiry, Stefano Redaelli and Florence Thompson (CERN)

Teams at CERN are working hard to perform essential tests on three pre-series collimators to validate their new designs and give the final green light for the full series production.

By Corinne Pralavorio / CERN

Two enormous cold boxes have been transported down into the HiLumi LHC underground. 

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A crucial milestone has been reached with the start of the cryogenic cooldown to 1.9 K (‑271.3 °C) of the IT String.

By Michele Sisti (CERN)

The first phase of the installation of the QXL in the underground galleries at Point 1 has been completed, paving the way to the subsequent phases of installation.

By Oliver Boettcher, Sergio Di Giovannantonio and Florence Thompson (CERN)

A remote-handling test of the VAX M1 vacuum module has been successfully carried out in the ATLAS cavern using the CRANEbot robotic system, developed at CERN.

By Florence Thompson (CERN)

The first dressed series RF dipole crab cavity, RFD02, has been successfully delivered to TRIUMF, Canada, from JLAB, USA, beginning the cavity’s journey towards cryostating.

By Sofia Kostoglou (CERN), Nicolas Mounet (CERN), Stefano Redaelli (CERN) & Rogelio Tomás García (CERN)

Achieving unprecedented beam parameters relies on pushing the bunch current to the target value of 2.3 × 10¹¹ protons per bunch at injection into the LHC.

By Susana Izquierdo Bermúdez (CERN)

Following the recent deliveries of magnets, half of the units from the US are at CERN.

By Tomas Pereira Nave Henriques Da Silva (CERN)

All 83 of the new deformable RF modules, key components to link adjacent vacuum chambers in the LHC, have been produced at CERN.