Read article 'LHC cold and preparing for beam'
Following a longer than usual technical stop, which began in December last year to allow for the replacement of the CMS inner tracker, all eight sectors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been co...
Read article 'Crab cavities promise brighter collisions'
As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gears up for its 2017 restart, teams in the background at CERN and around the world are making rapid progress towards a major LHC upgrade due to be operational from ...
Read article 'Physics at its limits'
A 100 km-circumference collider would address many of the outstanding questions in modern particle physics.
Read article 'Chamonix event prepares for LHC’s future'
2016 was a remarkably successful year for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marked by excellent peak performance, good availability and operational flexibility (CERN Courier December 2016 p5). Tar...
Read article 'Machine technical stop in full swing'
Following a record year of proton–proton operations at the LHC in 2016, which was followed by a successful proton–lead run, on 5 December 2016 the machine entered a longer than usual winter shutd...
Read article 'On the trail of the HL-LHC magnets'
Inside the IB3 Tech Building at Fermilab on the outskirts of Chicago, a heavy-duty machine several metres long slowly winds a flat superconducting cable. Watching the bespoke coil winder – called th...
Read article 'Going underground'
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project at CERN is a major upgrade that will extend the LHC’s discovery potential significantly. Approved in June 2014 and due to enter operation in the mid-2020s, t...
Read article 'AWAKE makes waves'
In early December, the AWAKE collaboration made an important step towards a pioneering accelerator technology that would reduce the size and cost of particle accelerators. Having commissioned the faci...
Read article 'Proton–lead run tops record year of LHC operations'
On 26 October, the LHC completed its 2016 proton–proton operations at a collision energy of 13 TeV, during which it exceeded the design value of the luminosity and broke many other records (CERN C...
Read article 'Electron gun shrunk to matchbox size'
A team of researchers from DESY and MIT has built a new kind of electron gun that is about the size of a matchbox.
