ESR Bruno Martin on the High Luminosity upgrade for the LHC in El País newspaper

July 17, 2018 by Bruno Martin

In a feature for El País, Bruno Martin explains the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider to its High Luminosity mode, which seeks to increase the proton-proton collisions by a factor of 5 to 7. This will be achieved by focusing the beams with new superconducting quadrupole magnets and 'crab' cavities that tilt the incoming particle bunches before each collision.

Photo: A technician testing new components of the LHC (CERN)

Photo credit: Maximilien Brice / CERN