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Two detector upgrades of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have recently been approved for installation during the next long shutdown of the LHC, which will take place from 2026 to 2028. The first one is an upgrade of the innermost three layers of the Inner Tracking System (ITS3), and the second is a new forward calorimeter (FoCal), optimised for photon detection in the forward direction of the ALICE detector. High-energy collisions of heavy i...

The FINANCIAL -- After three years of shutdown, the most powerful particle accelerator has been switched on today and will shortly begin another run of cutting-edge physics. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), on the French-Swiss border near Geneva, was switched off in 2018. This is to enable scientists and engineersThe FINANCIAL -- After three years of shutdown, the most powerful particle accelerator has been switched on today and will shortly b...

The Large Hadron Collider has been restarted successfully today, after undergoing significant upgrades with contributions from University of Warwick physicists.After three years of shutdown for planned maintenance and upgrades, the world’s most power

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades – with the first beam sent around the tunnel

Firing up the nearly 17 mile-long LHC under Switzerland is a complex process, requiring everything to work like an orchestra, especially after the extended shut down due to Covid-19.

Update: The first pilot beams circulated in the LHC on 19 October 2021. On 26 October, there were low-intensity test collisions at an injection energy of 450 GeV per beam and stable collisions of proton beams were declared on the morning of 27 October. Since 2019, many places at CERN have been operating like beehives to complete the scheduled upgrades for the second long shutdown (LS2) of the accelerator complex. This period of intense work is now coming to an end with the injection of the first...

Oct. 27, 2021 -- Since 2019, many places at CERN have been operating like beehives to complete the scheduled upgrades for the second long shutdown (LS2)

The outer barrel of the Inner Tracking Device was installed in March, two more before the inner barrel which completed it (Image: CERN) ...