ALBA Synchrotron
Dr. José Miguel Jimenez, Head of the Technology Department. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
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Enric Vinyals
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, its flagship particle accelerator, announced they had each observed a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model, a particle which contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and projected CERN and the LHC at the forefront interest of the scientific community and society. Since then, CERN has prioritised the full exploitation of the LHC. Indeed, the considerable amount of collisions recorded in 2016 represent only 2% of LHC’s potential!
The amazing LHC performances do not prevent CERN from preparing its future! While Physicists and Theoreticians will continue analysing data till 2024, CERN has approved an ambitious R&D program. Accelerator and detector experts prepare the High Luminosity (HL-LHC) upgrade using novel technologies for the future generation of high intensity and energy beams towards discovery frontiers. CERN's vigorous scientific diversity program will complete the needed global picture in Basic Science, letting Physics' results telling us the way to go and the relevant priorities!