High-Luminosity LHC: progress and lessons from the past year

Some of the technologies for the High-Luminosity LHC: part of the innovative Cold Powering System (top left), assembly of a crab cavity (top right), IT String test stand at CERN with new superconducting magnets and the Superconducting Link visible (bottom left), and installation work in new underground galleries at CERN (bottom right). Credit: CERN

CERN’s next accelerator, the High-Luminosity LHC, aims to increase the integrated luminosity tenfold beyond the design value of the LHC. As the start of CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 approaches, when major de-installation and installation works for the upgrade will take place, the project is entering a vital new phase.

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