Category: Miscellaneous
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From Near Absolute Zero To Room Temperature: The LHC Warm-up Begins
The LHC is warming up for a major overhauling. For only the third time since it began operating in 2008, the whole machine is slowly returning to room temperature after running at close to absolute zero.
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LS3 LHC begins: Electrical Lockout Successfully Completed
The start of Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) marked an important step forward with the initial power shutdown of the LHC successfully completed.
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Inside CAS at IPAC26: Digital growth meets community impact
Inside CAS at IPAC26: Digital growth meets community impact CAS used IPAC26 to connect knowledge, people, and opportunities. With over 1500 atendees, IPAC is a unique opportunity to explore the latest breakthroughs in accelerator research and development. It is also the premier annual gathering for the global accelerator community, bringing together scientists, engineers, and industry professionals from
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Closing the Lifecycle of ISOLDE Targets
The ISOLDE target team (SY-STI), in collaboration with HSE-RP, has established a dedicated dismantling programme to safely process retired radioactive target and ion source assemblies accumulated over several decades.
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Automation in Accelerator Beam Transfer
This article summarises the recent developments in equipment automation within the Accelerator Beam Transfer group (SY-ABT) to reduce downtime and improve machine availability.
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CERN Council Sets the Course for the Future of Particle Physics
The CERN Council has updated the European Strategy for Particle Physics, marking an important milestone for the future of high-energy physics in Europe and beyond. The update confirms the full exploitation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), through the completion and operation of its High-Luminosity upgrade,
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FCC robotics prototype enters validation phase in the FCC Arc Cell mock-up
The Remote Maintenance and Inspection System (RMIS) prototype is now being integrated in the FCC Arc Cell mock-up in CERN Buildings 355-358. The platform will be used to validate remote maintenance tasks, HSE activities, tooling, integration choices and intervention procedures for future FCC operations.
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HiRadMat facility: 15 years later
How it all started During a recent celebration of this important milestone, Nikolaos Charitonidis, HiRadMat Facility Coordinator, and Sebastien Evrard, BE-EA Group Leader, shared about HiRadMat’s early days as well as the challenges of the journey,
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5-minute race with 450 °C titanium: shrink fitting trial of CFC plates for HiLumi LHC beam dumps
The successful shrink-fitting trial of the carbon-fibre-reinforced carbon (CFC) plates into the titanium vessel marked the final crucial milestone in the validation of the assembly process for the High-Luminosity (HiLumi) LHC beam dumps.
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Read the 10th HiLumi LHC annual newsletter!
The 10th edition of the annual newsletter has been released. Read it here! Since the last issue, impressive milestones have been reached across the collaboration, with production progress becoming ever more vital as we transition to the deployment phase in Long Shutdown 3. Read overviews of project status and evolution of collaborations of the past…