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There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. A series of accelerators work together to push particles to nearly the speed of light.

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On Track: The latest news and results for AIDA-2020

A new bi-annual “On Track” newsletter provides news and results from the AIDA-2020 European project and the wider detector community

News
Accelerators
01 June, 2016

CERN launches Physics Beyond Colliders study group

CERN invites abstract applications for the workshop, which will investigate how CERN's accelerators can help solve questions of particle physics

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Accelerators
24 May, 2016

A great start for the whole CERN accelerator chain

With physics data-taking under way this week at the LHC, I’d like to take a look at what’s been happening at the rest of the CERN accelerator chain.

Opinion
Accelerators
17 May, 2016
Accelerators
Opinion
17 May, 2016

Winter therapy for the accelerators

Hundreds of people were hard at work during the year-end technical stop as all the accelerators underwent maintenance and upgrade operations

News
Accelerators
14 January, 2016
Accelerators
News
14 January, 2016

Release the beams! Linac 4 hits the 50 MeV mark

Linac 4 now reaching milestone energy of 50MeV to act as replacement for ageing Linac2, before taking over at head of accelerator chain in 2020

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Accelerators
26 November, 2015
Accelerators
News
26 November, 2015

Accelerating News summer issue now available

Updates on EuCARD-2, ERC grants, and CRISP in Issue 10 of Accelerating News. Now available online

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Accelerators
19 June, 2014
Accelerators
News
19 June, 2014

Accelerator experts meet in Germany

IPAC’14, the 5th International Accelerator Conference, has attracted more than 1500 accelerator experts this week to Dresden

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Accelerators
18 June, 2014
Accelerators
News
18 June, 2014

The Large Hadron Collider on tour

Collider, a new exhibition about the LHC, opens in London this week. It will stay for 6 months before a planned international tour

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Accelerators
12 November, 2013
Accelerators
News
12 November, 2013

New beam dump for a veteran accelerator

Watch CERN engineers install a new beam dump at the Proton Synchrotron Booster, one of CERN's older accelerators

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Engineering
11 October, 2013
Engineering
News
11 October, 2013

Accelerator physicists take the long view at EUCARD'13

In a workshop today at CERN, speakers at the EUCARD'13 meeting discussed challenges for the next 50 years of accelerator physics

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Accelerators
11 June, 2013