Category: ATS news
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HiRadMat facility: 15 years later
How it all started During a recent celebration of this important milestone, Nikolaos Charitonidis, HiRadMat Facility Coordinator, and Sebastien Evrard, BE-EA Group Leader, shared about HiRadMat’s early days as well as the challenges of the journey,
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EPITA project to spur innovative new accelerator technologies launches at CERN
A new multi-year accelerator technology projects gets underway By Thomas Brent The EU-funded EPITA project officially launched this week with a two-day kick-off event hosted at CERN, the coordinating institution. Funded through Horizon Europe’s Research Infrastructures programme, the project will develop innovative technologies to improve the performance and sustainability of particle accelerators and facilities in…
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Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex is gradually waking up from the winter shutdown
The 2026 Chamonix Workshop took place last week and brought together the accelerator and experimental communities to review the recent operational performance of the accelerator complex and discuss challenges ahead.
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Accelerator Report: A strong finish and a swift transition into the winter break
The early morning of 8 December offered a reminder that, in accelerator operations, not everything always goes according to plan. During the final weekend of the 2025 LHC run, the machine had been running almost like a Swiss clock, with short turnaround times (i.e. the interval between dumping one fill and declaring stable beams for…
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Accelerator Report: Good performance for some, swift recovery for others
The LHC pre-injectors delivered excellent availability throughout recent weeks, while an SPS electrical fault and an LHC collimator vacuum leak have been overcome, allowing a successful return to full luminosity production
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Building the Magnets for the Muon Collider
Gianluca Vernassa was awarded the IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship for his work on REBCO superconductors, a technology that could help shape the powerful magnets needed for the Muon Collider.
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Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex, between precision repairs and future-facing studies
The past weeks brought a mix of hands-on interventions and forward-looking studies across the CERN accelerator complex, while the LHC continued to catch up with the forecast luminosity curve
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Accelerator Report: A summer of hot spells for the LHC
So far the summer run has seen solid progress in luminosity production, but also some unexpected beam and machine behaviour. Careful monitoring revealed a hardware issue, now being closely watched as the LHC continues to perform at full capacity.
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Accelerator Report: Focus on luminosity production
Following the successful oxygen and neon ion runs, protons are back in the LHC, delivering luminosity at a high rate and slowly catching up with the forecast production rate. In addition, a slight increase of the bunch intensity is being considered
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Accelerator Report: The LHC wraps up its first 2025 physics block
The proton physics run has now been paused for the first block of machine development studies, a technical stop and short oxygen- and neon-ion physics runs. Protons will be back in the machines on 12 July