To increase the number of collisions in the #LHC by a factor of 10, the High-Luminosity LHC project – #HiLumiLHC – will upgrade the quadrupole magnets in interaction points 1 and 5, using a new superconducting technology based on Niobium-tin.
For High-Luminosity, we need to reach magnetic fields of above 10 T. We will use Niobium-tin superconductor, which will allow reaching magnetic fields of about 12 T, but it requires a complex fabrication process. #HiLumiLHC part two: …
The third video of our series on LHC's upgrade to the #HiLumiLHC is about magnet testing.
Once the model magnet is done, it has to be tested on a cryogenic test stand to see the parameters and be sure that everything works as expected.
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“Places like CERN give us hope for a better world. Places like CERN show what humanity can achieve when we set aside our disputes and focus on the common good.”
« Des institutions comme le CERN donnent l'espoir d'un monde meilleur, et montrent ce que l'humanité peut accomplir lorsqu’elle met ses différends de côté et agit pour le bien commun. »
— CERN Director-General Dr Fabiola Gianotti
La Directrice générale du CERN Madame Fabiola Gianotti
#CERN70
Earlier today, I had the privilege of visiting CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Walking through those halls, I was awestruck by the scale of the groundbreaking experiments happening here. Meeting the Belgian scientists involved in this remarkable work was truly inspiring. Belgium is proud to support CERN and I reaffirm our commitment to this exceptional European collaborative research project. Here’s to 70 years of discovery and to many more years of adventure driven by the CERN community’s human curiosity.
— Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium
Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Astrid de Belgique
#CERN70
No European country alone could have built the world’s largest particle collider. CERN has become a global hub because it rallied Europe and this is even more crucial today. I am proud that we have financed the feasibility study for CERN’s Future Circular Collider (FCC). This could preserve Europe's scientific edge and could push the boundaries of human knowledge even further. And as the global science race is on, I want Europe to switch gears. To do so, European unity is our greatest asset.
— President of the European Commission Her Excellency Dr Ursula von der Leyen
La Présidente de la Commission européenne Son Excellence Madame Ursula von der Leyen
#OnThisDay in 1902, the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was born.
As we #FollowTheProtons to CERN’s #Antimatter Factory, what better way to start than by celebrating the work of this young physicist and his @NobelPrize-winning equation?
@NobelPrize In 1928, Dirac wrote an equation to describe the behaviour of an electron moving at a relativistic speed. It could have two solutions: one for an electron with positive energy, and one for an electron with negative energy.
@NobelPrize This equation, in some way, predicted for the first time the existence of an anti-world identical to ours, but made out of antimatter.
What would you ask him about antimatter if you could meet him? 🎂
On 13 July, CELESTA was launched into #space aboard #VegaC.
Here are the quick facts:
🛰️ It is the first CERN-driven satellite
🤖 It will study radiation's effects on electronics
🤝🏽 It is a collaboration with @umontpellier
Protecting satellites against radiation is a challenging and costly task. Some of CERN’s facilities are able to reproduce the environment of Earth’s orbit at a low cost, and help with radiation testing: kt.cern/aerospace/faci…
To study the effect of space radiation on electronics, CERN has developed a radiation monitoring device, Space RadMon, taken into space with the #CELESTA microsatellite aboard #VegaC.
Display of a collision event recorded by ATLAS on 5 July 2022, when stable beams of protons at the energy of 6.8 TeV were delivered to ATLAS for the start of #LHCRun3.
Display of a collision event recorded by CMS on 5 July 2022, when the collisions at the record energy of 13.6 trillion-electronvolts (TeV) were first recorded by the #LHC experiments. #LHCRun3
Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek is all about the @LHCbExperiment. We are almost ready for #restartingLHC, so here are some of the tasks involved in the upgrade of the LHCb experiment. 💪
@LHCbExperiment ✅ Upgrade of the VErtex LOcator, a detector used to determine the exact point where the particles collide. One of its sensors is just 5mm away from the beam. Brand new modules were installed, with 40 million active pixels.
@LHCbExperiment ✅ New mirrors for the ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors: this system consists of two huge digital cameras that measure the speed of particles. The lens system of the cameras is made of about 200 flat and spherical mirrors immersed in special gases.
“I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the many partners in our Member and Associate Member States and beyond who are making the #CERNScienceGateway possible, in particular to our generous donors.”
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General
“We will do our best, not only in the construction & operation of the #CERNScienceGateway but also more widely to ensure that science maintains a place of integrity and trustworthiness, of international collaboration aiming for peace”
Ursula Bassler, President of the CERN Council