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25 November, 2019
A colloquium on 25 November will celebrate the anniversary of CERN’s oldest accelerator
On 24 November 1959, CERN’s Proton Synchrotron became the highest-energy machine in the world when it accelerated a beam to its design energy of 24 GeV for the first time. Today, the PS is still in operation, being one of the main cogs in the CERN accelerator complex.
The Proton Synchrotron: 60 years and counting (Video: CERN)
Find out more about the history of the Proton Synchrotron by watching the webcast today from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (CET) featuring different speakers talking about pushing the performance as well as the future and upgrades of the machine: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/733
Note:
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.
The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.
Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 23 Member States.
Proton Synchrotron (PS): http://home.cern/about/accelerators/proton-synchrotron-booster
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