The CMS Phase-2 Upgrade projects will replace or improve detector systems to provide the necessary physics performance under the challenging conditions of high luminosity at the HL-LHC. Installation of the upgraded detector systems starts in LS2 and…
Read MOREToday, about 30 gas systems are used to deliver the right gas mixture to the corresponding gaseous detectors at the LHC experiments. The detector gas mixture is the sensitive medium where the charge multiplication produces the signal that is then…
Read MOREThere are various applications where the output of a sensor is a low current. In some cases like in ionizing radiation measurements, device characterization, leakage current measurements and biosensing instrumentation, the current that has to be…
Read MOREThe LHC stopped its 2017 operation at the beginning of December and the experiments have already started their plan of intervention for the end-of-year break. The last two weeks of data taking have been particularly important for ALICE, since a…
Read MOREThe High Luminosity LHC programme not only pushes the frontiers of accelerator and detector technology, but it also brings enormous challenges to the software and computing that is used to turn high luminosity data into physics. The scale of the…
Read MOREThe 2017 data taking period for LHCb ended at the end of November. Towards the end of the 2017 run at the centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, the LHC provided collisions at a reduced energy of 5 TeV to produce reference data for proton-lead and…
Read MOREThe CERN proton irradiation facility (IRRAD) at the PS East Area has been designed and built during LS1 to cope with the increasing need for irradiation experiments of the EP experimental community, working for the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC…
Read MOREEarlier in October, the Large Hadron Collider had a special test run of colliding xenon nuclei; a new flavour compared to the standard proton and lead collisions foreseen in the LHC experimental programme. Xenon collisions were requested by NA61, a…
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