Category: HL-LHC News
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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.
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New beam dump design for High-Luminosity stored beam energies
In the LHC beam dumps, the energy stored in the proton beams must be safely absorbed by the core materials. Due to their exceptional thermal shock and radiation resistance, carbon-based materials have been successfully used for this purpose since LHC Run 1. In the High-Luminosity (HL) era, the maximum stored energy in each LHC beam…
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Collider-experiment interface: how engineers are preparing for manoeuvres in this highly restricted region of the HL-LHC
Engineers have started to use a life-sized mockup, named GALLUS V2, of the highly restricted region between the collision points and the tunnel at ATLAS and CMS, to test alignment and handling procedures.
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The cold sets in: cryogenic installations | CERN News
The delivery of two huge compressors kicks off the installation of the new helium refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC. As manufacturing of the components for the HL-LHC reaches its final stages, installation activities are gaining pace. Six impressive compression units have just been delivered by Linde Kryotechnik and installed in the new HL-LHC surface buildings…
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15th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting gathers 300+ at CERN
The 15th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting brought together over 300 scientists and engineers from around the globe at CERN, marking a major milestone as the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Project moves quickly through the production phase and is gearing up for its deployment in the LHC tunnel from July 2026.
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Passing the baton: Markus Zerlauth is the new HL-LHC Project Leader
As of today, Wednesday 1st October 2025, Markus Zerlauth is the new HL-LHC Project Leader, taking over from Oliver Brüning. Markus brings with him his thirteen years in the project, initially working alongside Oliver for the Parameter and Layout Committee and the Technical Coordination Committee, before joining the HL project office team in 2020 as the…
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Test installation of the new HL-LHC cryogenic distribution line in the HL underground
An important step for the installation of the new HL-LHC cryogenic distribution line (QXL) was achieved during the last week of July and the first…
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Improvements to CERN’s accelerator injector chain completed as part of high-luminosity upgrade
Modernising the injectors. The project to modernise the injectors to CERN’s LHC, called the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU), has been several years in the making.
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Completion of series production for the CLIQ machine protection system
The full series production of the Coupling-Loss Induced Quench (CLIQ) system has now been completed and delivered to CERN. CLIQ is a novel protection technology developed at CERN for the superconducting magnets of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL‑LHC).
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Third magnet from the USA delivered!
After a long journey from Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, the third cryo-assembly (named LQXFA04) from the United States Accelerator Upgrade Program (US-AUP) has been successfully delivered to CERN. Having arrived on 6th of August, it will now undergo incoming inspection, followed by a horizontal cold test and finally the second phase of cryostat assembly.