Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024
On Friday 5 April, at 6.25 p.m., the LHC Engineer-in-Charge at the CERN Control Centre (CCC) announced that stable beams were back in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the official start of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The third year of LHC Run 3 promises six months of 13.6 TeV proton collisions at an even higher luminosity than before ...
News - CERN
Nov 6, 2024 · CERN70: The discovery of the Higgs boson, a giant leap for science. Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, was spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider from 2009 to 2013 and responsible for announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, alongside the CMS spokesperson. Feature. Physics. 31 October, 2024.
The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the ...
At the LHC, tomorrow is already here - CERN
Dec 5, 2017 · On Monday, 4 December at 4.00 a.m., the accelerator operators hit the stop button on the accelerator complex and the Large Hadron Collider for their usual winter break. But while the machines are hibernating, there’s no rest for the humans, as CERN teams will be busy with all the maintenance and upgrade work required before the machines are restarted in the spring. The LHC has ended the year ...
Large Hadron Collider restarts - CERN
Apr 22, 2022 · The LHC tunnel at point 1 (Image: CERN) The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, at 12:16 CEST, two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider ’s 27-kilometre ring ...
LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped
Dec 7, 2022 · Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex. On Monday, 28 November at 6 o’clock in the morning, the LHC Engineer in Charge flipped the switch and the last proton beams of 2022 made a final turn around the LHC before being discarded into the dedicated beam dumps. This marked the end of the first of four years of Run ...
CERN approves new LHC experiment
Apr 27, 2021 · The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is getting a new experiment. In March 2021, the CERN Research Board approved the ninth experiment at the Large Hadron Collider: SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC. Designed to detect and study neutrinos, particles similar to the electron but with no electric charge and very low mass, the experiment will complement ...
Kick-off for the 2017 LHC physics season - CERN
May 23, 2017 · Physics at the LHC has kicked off for another season. Today, the Large Hadron Collider shifted up a gear, allowing the experiments to start taking data for the first time in 2017. Operations are starting gradually, with just a few proton bunches per beam. The operators who control the most powerful collider in the world will gradually increase the number of bunches circulating and will also ...
New schedule for CERN's accelerators
Oct 8, 2024 · CERN has revised its schedule for its accelerator complex. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently in its third period of physics data taking (Run 3), and this will now be extended until July 2026. The third Long Shutdown (LS3) will then begin, seven and a half months later than originally planned. CERN’s other accelerators will continue to operate throughout July and August 2026 and ...
Accelerator Report: Ending the 2024 LHC proton run on a high note
Oct 17, 2024 · This year’s LHC proton run, which has seen protons colliding at an energy of 6.8 TeV, ended on 16 October, surpassing expectations with 11% more collisions than planned. Next up: a four-day machine development (MD) block, before the LHC gears up for its final run of the year, the lead-ion run, scheduled to end at 6.00 a.m. on 25 November. The integrated luminosity evolution throughout the ...