Category: HL-LHC News
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Beam gas curtain monitor becomes an operational instrument for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider | Accelerating News
Following a positive evaluation during a review of transverse beam profile monitoring for the HiLumi LHC in September 2025, in February 2026 the BGC monitor was approved as an important addition to the beam instrumentation baseline for the HiLumi era.
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A year of works in the HiLumi LHC underground and surface buildings
2025 was once again an important and strategic year for the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC) Project as a whole, including for Work Package 17 (WP17), responsible of infrastructure, logistics and civil engineering.
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High-intensity beam test in preparation for CERN’s upcoming HL-LHC era
A dedicated high-intensity beam test is planned for the end of the 2026 run, with preparatory experimental work having already taken place in 2025.
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Cryogenics equipment arrives in the HiLumi underground | home.cern
By Corinne Pralavorio / CERN Two enormous cold boxes have been transported down into the HiLumi LHC underground.
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First phase of installation complete for the new HiLumi LHC Cryogenic Distribution Line
The first phase of the installation of the new HiLumi LHC Cryogenic Distribution Line (QXL) in the underground galleries at Point 1 was completed at the beginning of February.
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Robotic test installation in the ATLAS cavern of HiLumi LHC vacuum module
A remote-handling test of the VAX M1 vacuum module has been successfully carried out in the ATLAS cavern using the CRANEbot robotic system, developed at CERN.
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First series RFD crab cavity on the road to cryomodule assembly
The first dressed series RF dipole crab cavity, RFD02, has been successfully delivered to TRIUMF, Canada, from JLAB, USA.
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Half of the US-AUP magnet production at CERN
At the end of October we received two more magnets from Fermilab (CA03 and CA05). With these deliveries, half of the units from the US are at CERN! They join the other three magnets already received: CA01 and CA02 for the IT String, and CA04.
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Production of novel deformable RF warm vacuum interconnections
All 83 of the new deformable RF modules, key components to link adjacent vacuum chambers in the LHC, have been produced at CERN, marking a significant milestone for the HL-LHC project.
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All bare DQW crab cavities produced and qualified
Following etching and most-recent tests of the final 6 bare DQW crab cavities delivered to CERN earlier this year, the whole DQW series has been qualified.