Category: BE News
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Mapping the path toward a Muon Cooling Demonstrator
The Muon Cooling Demonstrator Workshop, held in Milan from 5 to 7 November and hosted in hybrid format, gathered around 90 participants from Europe, the US and Asia to take stock of the progress toward demonstrating ionisation cooling – the central challenge for the future Muon Collider. The meeting, organised under the EU MuCol design…
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Unlocking New Fixed-Target Possibilities at the LHC with TWOCRYST
Exploring subtle properties of fundamental particles often requires innovative ways to exploit particle accelerators. ALADDIN (An LHC Apparatus for Direct Dipole moments INvestigation) is a newly proposed fixed-target experiment at the LHC that aims to perform the first direct measurements of the electric and magnetic dipole moments of charm baryons. These observables are exquisitely sensitive…
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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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PREPARE. UPGRADE. VERIFY. COMMISSION. – YETS 2025 – 2026
Today marks the beginning of the Year-End Technical Stop 2025–26 (YETS), a period in which CERN’s North Area shifts from high-intensity operation to an equally intense phase of maintenance and renewal. During the YETS, the North Area fills with activity:
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Novel beam sensors built to last
A team of accelerator scientists is testing the use of new, more resistant sensors based on hollow glass fibres to measure particle beams
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Novel alignment solutions: A Structured Laser Beam at the CLEAR accelerator facility
At CERN’s CLEAR (CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research) facility, researchers are continuously striving to advance accelerator technology and pioneer new methods that enhance both research and find other applications. CLEAR provides a unique experimental platform where novel accelerator concepts can be tested, refined, and validated under real operating conditions.
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Lighting the way for the next generation of particle detectors
As part of the North Area Consolidation programme NA-CONS, a new XCET threshold Cherenkov detector was put to the test on one of CERN’s North Area beamlines a year ago, marking the rebirth of a technology that has quietly supported particle physics for half a century.
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Hollow Fibres for the Future of CERN’s North Area
A slender glass fibre no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could transform the way scientists monitor beams in one of CERN’s busiest regions: the North Area, home to many experiments that rely on intense particle beams coming from the Super Proton Synchrotron.
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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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First Impregnation of Curved “Fusillo” Magnet Achieved with Upgraded UNICOS-based Automation System
The successful impregnation of the prototype curved magnet known as Fusillo marks an important step forward in magnet development and highlights the central role of industrial automation in supporting advanced manufacturing processes at CERN.