Category: EN News
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Building a Community Around Novel Low Density Materials
A workshop hosted by the University of Bath had brought together researchers from CERN, academia and industry to discuss advances in low-density materials and their applications for future accelerators
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Ahead of the Wave: Early-Warning Digital Twin Converts Seismic Motion into Infrastructure Intelligence
Developed within the framework of the EN-MME Digital Twins initiative, a multidisciplinary collaboration across CERN teams has demonstrated a real- time predictive Digital Twin that converts ground motion into instant impact assessments for future colliders.
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Project Management Meet Ups: sharing experience at CERN
Over the past two years, the Project Management Meet Ups (PMMUs) have grown into a regular forum for CERN colleagues to share practical experience, tools and lessons learned from managing projects across the Organization.
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Rebuilding a Critical Technology: How CERN is Preparing the Next Generation of Beryllium Vacuum Chambers
The discontinuation in 2023 of the last industrial supplier of beryllium vacuum chambers created a critical gap for high-energy physics. These ultra-thin components, installed at the interaction points of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
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Major HVAC Upgrade Enhances Safety in the ISOLDE Primary Areas
Following a review of fire and radiation safety conducted within the framework of the FIRIA project, an upgrade focused on modernizing HVAC installations serving the ISOLDE primary areas has now been successfully completed.
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CERN strengthens power-quality monitoring within the RF2.0 sustainability project
As research infrastructures across Europe seek to reduce their environmental footprint while maintaining reliable operation, CERN is playing a key role in the Horizon Europe project RF2.0, Research Facility 2.0. The initiative aims to make particle accelerators and other energy-intensive facilities more sustainable, flexible and energy-efficient
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The start of the LS3 in the LHC
For the injectors, the transition from operation mode to LS3 will take place on 31st August. Note that the dismantling of the CNGS Target Area and the replacement of the ISOLDE beam dumps, two LS3 projects are already well underway since 2025, June and December respectively.
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CERN Wins Cooling Best-In-Sector Award!
At the Atmosphere Europe Summit 2025, a leading international forum dedicated to accelerating the adoption of innovative, climate-friendly technologies, CERN was awarded Best-in-Sector / Industrial End User for its pioneering implementation of natural refrigerant-based cooling systems supporting the Phase-II upgrades of the ATLAS and CMS detectors.
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The Long Shutdown 3
The third Long Shutdown (LS3) marks a critical milestone for CERN, enabling installation and commissioning of the High-Luminosity LHC equipment for the accelerator and the phase II upgrades of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. This period will also see a range of essential projects: treating LHC beam
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News from the ATS Quality Service
While many specific documents have their own dedicated Microsoft Word templates (see the Templates page on the ATS Quality Service page), generic documents now also have templates available in both Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats.