Category: BE News
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Accelerator Report: A first step towards beam production – the Linac4 source is running again
The activities of the year-end technical stop (YETS) have come to an end in the first machines of the injector complex. By Rende Steerenberg Some of you may recall that, in previous years, the Linac4 source provided a beam current of 35 mA for all operational beams. This year, following successful tests at up to…
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2024: a record year for the CHARM radiation test facility
After 9 months of intense activity, the 2024 T8 proton beam run came to an end on November 13, passing the relay for the last two weeks of operations to lead ions and related test activities. Consequently, the CHARM and IRRAD facilities also concluded their proton testing activities on the same day, after a record-breaking…
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White Rabbit Collaboration meeting held at CERN
Participants in the WRC Board meeting on 3 December 2024. White Rabbit (WR) is an open-source technology born at CERN. It is based on standards (Ethernet and the Precision Time Protocol, PTP) and allows the synchronisation of nodes in fibre networks with an accuracy better than 1 nanosecond. Since its standardisation within IEEE 1588, it…
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Accelerator Report: Preparing for 2025 LHC operation and setting goals
The Chamonix Workshop is in full swing, and the initial outlines of the 2025 LHC configuration and operational scenarios are beginning to take shape. By Rende Steerenberg The year-end technical stop (YETS) activities in the accelerator complex’s first machines are nearing completion, but in the LHC about six weeks of work still lie ahead of…
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Accelerator Report: Another exciting year ahead
Although the much-appreciated winter break is well behind us and most of us are back at work, the accelerator complex is still in hibernation – but not for much longer By Rende Steerenberg Just as the end of a run gives us the chance to look back and reflect on our achievements, the start of a…