Author: Rogelio Tomás (CERN)
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LHC High-Intensity Tests paving the way for HiLumi LHC
During the two days dedicated to LHC high-intensity tests, the accelerator successfully operated with an unprecedented number of high-intensity bunches and provided encouraging results and valuable lessons ahead of the main high-intensity test campaign planned in late-June. Preparatory tests for the LHC high-intensity (HI) period, carried out on 4th to 6th May 2026 marked an important milestone
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The challenges of magnet sorting for the HL-LHC
Magnet sorting is a challenging process that aims at improving the performance of a particle accelerator by the clever choice of the position of the magnets to induce a natural compensation of the field errors that are inevitable in modern superconducting magnets. These studies are intrinsically multi-faceted and an appropriate figure of merit should be
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Performance ramp-up in the HL-LHC era
The performance ramp-up of the LHC after LS3 foresees a smooth ramp-up of the effective pile-up density for the nominal case, with a nominal bunch intensity reached after two years (i.e. as of 2029: 1.7 × 1011 in 2027 and 2028 is a placeholder for the bunch intensity reached in Run3 in LHC, whose target