Particle Physics: CERN has reached a crucial construction milestone for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade, finishing installation of its advanced niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) superconducting quadrupole magnet array.
Squeezing Proton Bunches to Sub-Micron Widths
The new 12-tesla focusing magnets compress proton beams down to a fraction of a human hair’s thickness right at the collision points inside the ATLAS and CMS detector caverns.
Ten-Fold Increase in Integrated Luminosity
The upgrade will generate 10 times more collision data over the next decade, enabling high-precision measurements of Higgs boson self-interaction and searches for supersymmetric particles.
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