The Large Hadron Collider on tour
Kate KahleA video taster of the new immersive exhibition Collider, opening this week (Video: Science Museum)A new exhibition about the Large Hadron Collider opens this week. Collider will be at...
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Booster cables
A view inside the Proton Syncrotron Booster, a key part of CERN's accelerator complex which accelerates beams of protons before delivering them to the Proton Synchrotron at energies around 1.4 GeV...
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Accelerator experts meet in Germany
Christine SuttonDetail from the conference poster (Image: IPAC'14)IPAC’14, the 5th International Accelerator Conference, is taking place this week in Dresden, Germany. The conference, which rotates...
View ArticleAccelerating News summer issue now available
Issue 10 of Accelerating News is now available online. From the editors:In this summer issue, we look at recent events within EuCARD-2 including the workshop on accelerators for ADS and the first...
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Release the beams! Linac 4 hits the 50 MeV mark
The Linac 4 tunnel where DTL tubes guide the 50MeV beam, taken on the Photowalk (Image: Andrew Hara/CERN)This week the Linac 4 accelerator has reached a milestone energy of 50 MeV – meaning it is now...
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Winter therapy for the accelerators
Corinne PralavorioOn 12 January, members of the team working on CERN's year-end technical stop prepare to install one of the LHC’s new beam absorbers. The six-metre-long component will be lowered 100...
View ArticleA great start for the whole CERN accelerator chain
Frédérick BordryThe LHC tends to dominate the news from CERN for all kinds of reasons, beech martens included, but we should not forget that there is a unique chain of accelerators upstream of the LHC,...
View ArticleCERN launches Physics Beyond Colliders study group
We are pleased to announce the kick-off workshop of the "Physics Beyond Colliders" Study Group which has recently been set up by CERN Management. The workshop will be held at CERN, Geneva, on September...
View ArticleOn Track: The latest news and results for AIDA-2020
Harriet JarlettThe AIDA-2020 EU project started one year ago, in May 2015, with the aim to group together the High Energy Physics R&D community in Europe – uniting them in the goal of advancing...
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Linac 4 reached its energy goal
Stefania PandolfiLinac 4 during its installation in 2015. This photo was taken as part of the 2015 Photowalk competition (Image: Federica Piccinni/CERN)CERN’s new linear accelerator (Linac 4) has now...
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AWAKE: Making waves in accelerator technology
Stephanie HillsA member of the AWAKE collaboration, from the Max Planck Institute, performing tests in the experiment's underground tunnel (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)The AWAKE collaboration has...
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A brand new linear accelerator for CERN
At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Image: Maximilien Brice/ CERN)At a ceremony today, CERN...
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ARIES project kicks off at CERN
Jennifer Toes on behalf of the ARIES consortiumARIES members attend the kick-off meeting at CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation, May 2017 (Image: CERN)The ARIES project officially began on 1 May...
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How can cubes made of paper help teach particle physics?
Melissa Kaspar, Harriet JarlettAcceleratAR can help teach how particle accelerators work, using augmented reality. (Image: acceleratAR/Cockroft Institute)Particle physics and the accelerators used to...
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Accelerating particles - but not just for the LHC
Corinne PralavorioDistribution of protons delivered by the accelerator chain to the different installations. (Image: Daniel Dominguez/CERN)This week, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was in technical...
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To 20 Tesla and beyond: the high-temperature superconductors
Stefania PandolfiPrototype “Roebel” cable based on the high-temperature superconductor ReBCO (rare-earth barium-copper oxide) is being used to wind a demonstration accelerator dipole at CERN as part of...
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Xenon in the SPS: First tests for a photon factory
Corinne PralavorioThe Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), pictured during a recent technical stop. (Image: Max Brice/CERN)Accelerator operators can perform amazing acrobatics with particle beams, most...
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CLEAR prospects for accelerator research
Matthew ChalmersCLEAR’s plasma-lens experiment will test ways to drive strong currents through a plasma for particle-beam transverse focusing. (Image: M. Volpi/CERN)A new user facility for accelerator...
View ArticleAccelerating News summer issue now available
Issue 10 of Accelerating News is now available online. From the editors:In this summer issue, we look at recent events within EuCARD-2 including the workshop on accelerators for ADS and the first...
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Release the beams! Linac 4 hits the 50 MeV mark
The Linac 4 tunnel where DTL tubes guide the 50MeV beam, taken on the Photowalk (Image: Andrew Hara/CERN)This week the Linac 4 accelerator has reached a milestone energy of 50 MeV – meaning it is now...
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