Category: BE News
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TWOCRYST: A Proof-of-Principle Experiment for Crystal-Based EDM/MDM Measurements of Charm Baryons
TWOCRYST: A Proof-of-Principle Experiment for Crystal-Based EDM/MDM Measurements of Charm Baryons by Pascal Hermes, on behalf of the TWOCRYST Collaboration TWOCRYST is entering its final phase of preparation at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its goal is to demonstrate a novel method for studying the electric and magnetic dipole moments (EDM/MDM) of extremely short-lived…
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Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning
Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning The LHC operations team and many other experts have been working hard to set up and validate the accelerator for safe beam operation, leading to the first stable beams for physics of 2025 on 5 May By Rende Steerenberg Declaring first stable beams marks…
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Installation of MKICool magnets in Pt. 8 completed!
Installation of MKICool magnets in Pt. 8 completed! By Giorgia Favia, Tobias Stadlbauer & Thomas Kramer for SY-ABT The LHC is equipped with two injection kicker (MKI) systems for deflecting the incoming particle beams onto the LHC’s orbits. Each system, located at Point 2 (MKI2) and Point 8 (MKI8), consists of four MKI magnets. The…
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And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway “Stable” particle beams are back in the LHC machine, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking campaign By Anaïs Schaeffer Today at 13h51, the engineer in charge of the LHC at the CERN Control Centre announced that stable beams had returned to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),…
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Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition
Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition The LHC has restarted and both beams have been circulating in the machine since 8 April, meaning that the start of the LHC beam commissioning during Easter is apparently not a constant of nature. By Rende Steerenberg I concluded my previous Accelerator Report with: “…if the two-week delay holds, the…
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First batch of jacks for HL-LHC delivered at CERN
First batch of jacks for HL-LHC delivered at CERN By Simon Barriere and Délio Duarte Ramos (CERN) In March 2025, CERN received the first batch of jacks required to support and remotely align the HL-LHC magnets, TAXN absorbers, and crab cavity cryomodules.
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White Rabbit Collaboration: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Industry Adoption
White Rabbit Collaboration: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Industry Adoption From eight founding partners to 18 members in just a year, the White Rabbit (WR) Collaboration has proven the interest of industry and public entities in joining forces to exploit, maintain and develop the open-source White Rabbit technology for the benefit of all. Developed at CERN…
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Accelerator Report: The LHC commissioning is well on track, but challenges lie ahead
Accelerator Report: The LHC commissioning is well on track, but challenges lie ahead The first beam-based physics of 2025 has started and more will follow soon. However, some unexpected challenges will cause a small delay in the restart of the LHC. By Rende Steerenberg Last week, on 19 March, the first beam-based physics of the…
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Robotic solution: successful preparation of the CMS rotating shielding for future HL-LHC vacuum module installation
Robotic solution: successful preparation of the CMS rotating shielding for future HL-LHC vacuum module installation By Florence Thompson (CERN) The CMS rotating shielding has now been successfully modified in-situ to prepare it to receive new vacuum modules for the HL-LHC, using a specifically designed method to deal with the space and radiation constraints of this…
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Accelerator Report: Recommissioning on track as the first beams progress through the complex
Accelerator Report: Recommissioning on track as the first beams progress through the complex The recommissioning of the accelerators is progressing according to schedule. Unsurprisingly, some issues have arisen, but they have been swiftly addressed by equipment experts. First physics in the PS East Area and n_TOF is scheduled to start next week. By Rende Steerenberg…