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CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types - dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles, octupoles, decapoles, etc. - to steer and control its particle beams.
Summary
CERN has started replacing some of the Large Hadron Collider’s most important magnets as part of its High-Luminosity upgrade. The new superconducting magnets will produce fields about 40% stronger, allowing particle beams to be squeezed more tightly before they collide. That should create far more collisions for the ATLAS and CMS experiments to analyze, giving physicists a much larger window into the fundamental workings of the universe.
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