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Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced

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Accelerators
05 July, 2023

Accelerator Report: LHC pausing production for maintenance to stay strong and highly performing

On Monday, 19 June, LHC operation was paused for one week to allow the technical teams to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance on the machine and its subsystems

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Accelerators
20 June, 2023

Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring

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Accelerators
06 June, 2023

Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam

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Accelerators
24 May, 2023
Accelerators
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24 May, 2023

Busy as a BE

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Accelerators
12 May, 2023
Accelerators
Opinion
12 May, 2023

Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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Accelerators
10 May, 2023

Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

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Accelerators
05 May, 2023
Accelerators
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05 May, 2023

Accelerator Report: Crescendo at the LHC following the first stable beams at 6.8 TeV

Another important milestone was achieved in the LHC beam commissioning: on 21 April, the LHC Engineer in Charge declared “stable beams” at 6.8 TeV, the first time in 2023

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Accelerators
27 April, 2023

HiLumi News: Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnet

The successful replacement of a coil in an HL-LHC niobium–tin quadrupole magnet by the US Accelerator Upgrade Project team has showcased this crucial technology’s flexibility and cost-effectiveness

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Accelerators
26 April, 2023

Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro (1941 – 2023)

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Accelerators
25 April, 2023
Accelerators
Obituary
25 April, 2023