Read article 'LHC consolidation work proceeds apace'
The consolidation campaign for the LHC, which aims to ensure a safe final commissioning and reliable running of the collider is now well under way. On 9 February CERN’s management confirmed the ...
Read article 'Mobilizing for the LHC'
Investigations following the incident in Sector 3-4 of the LHC on 19 September have confirmed that the cause was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets. This resulted in mechanical damag...
Read article 'LHC first beam: a day to remember'
At a little before 10.30 a.m. on 10 September, two dots on a colour screen in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) marked the successful first complete turn of protons clockwise round the LHC. It was less t...
Read article 'CMS: Building on innovation'
Jim Virdee talks to Carolyn Lee on how the CMS experiment are preparing for the LHC
Read article 'Early days: Lausanne LHC workshop (archive)'
The installation of a hadron collider in the LEP tunnel, using superconducting magnets, has always been foreseen by ECFA and CERN as the natural long term extension of the CERN facilities beyond LEP. ...
Read article 'The LHC sees its first circulating beam'
At 10.28 am on 10 September, the first beam made the full 27 km journey around the LHC, travelling in a clockwise direction.
Read article 'Constructing HERA: rising to the challenge'
Dieter Trines looks back at the challenge of building HERA - the first and only electron–proton collider based on a superconducting-magnet ring.
Read article 'Lee Teng: a passion for the accelerator fast lane'
Résumé Lee Teng: une carrière passionnée dans les accélérateurs Cette année, la Société américaine de physique a décerné le prix Robert ...
Read article 'IHEP and CERN collaborate well on beam-loss monitors'
The LHC beam-loss monitoring (BLM) system is the key to protecting the machine against dangerous beam "losses" of this kind.
Read article 'KEK achieves first operation of crab cavities'
A team of accelerator physicists at KEK has achieved effective head-on collisions of electrons and positrons while retaining the crossing angle. They accomplished this at the KEKB collider using new d...
