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CERN has initiated the third long shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider by disconnecting its aging inner triplet magnets. These components, installed between 2005 and 2007, will be replaced by new niobium-tin superconducting magnets that generate fields 40% stronger. This upgrade aims to increase collision rates for the ATLAS and CMS experiments, significantly boosting data collection for fundamental physics research.
The Large Hadron Collider is entering a multi-year shutdown to become the High-Luminosity LHC, expected to start around 2030 with about seven times more data. This upgrade focuses on replacing detectors with faster, more precise, radiation-hard silicon trackers and adding precision timing to disentangle complex collision events. The goal is to probe Higgs boson properties with unprecedented precision—including rare decays like Higgs to muons or charm quarks and Higgs self-coupling—potentially revealing physics beyond the Standard Model and offering new insights into dark matter and the matter–antimatter imbalance.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have achieved a major milestone in the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by completing 111 high-tech superconducting cables. These cables will be used to create the strongest focusing magnets ever installed in an accelerator, condensing particle beams before they collide in detectors. The upgrade, known as the High-Luminosity LHC, will significantly increase the amount of experimental data collected and allow scientists to search for rare phenomena and investigate mysteries in physics. The magnets, made of niobium-tin, will operate at roughly 12 tesla, several hundred thousand times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, has resumed operations after a four-month hiatus for maintenance and upgrades. Scientists will continue to study the laws of nature and probe the properties of the Higgs boson, with the help of artificial intelligence to select the most interesting collisions. The LHC's upgraded version, the High Luminosity LHC, will be available in 2028 and should allow researchers to record at least ten times more data than has currently been analyzed.