LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
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The LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) is a major CERN project to modernize and enhance the performance of the accelerator chain feeding the Large Hadron Collider, enabling higher beam intensities and luminosities for future physics runs.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| LHC Injectors Upgrade | 2 |
| CERN Long Shutdown 2 | 1 |
| LHC Injectors Upgrade project | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
CERN accelerator upgrade project
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Large Hadron Collider injector upgrade program ⓘ |
| affects |
ion beams for LHC
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proton beams for LHC ⓘ |
| alternateName |
LIU
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LIU project ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Linac4
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Proton Synchrotron ⓘ Proton Synchrotron Booster ⓘ Super Proton Synchrotron ⓘ |
| associatedWith | High-Luminosity LHC upgrade schedule ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| enables |
higher LHC beam brightness
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higher LHC bunch intensity ⓘ higher LHC integrated luminosity ⓘ higher LHC peak luminosity ⓘ smaller LHC beam emittance ⓘ |
| field |
high-energy physics infrastructure
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particle accelerator technology ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
enable higher LHC luminosity
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increase beam intensity for the LHC ⓘ modernize the LHC injector chain ⓘ prepare injectors for High-Luminosity LHC operation ⓘ |
| improves |
beam brightness in injector chain
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beam intensity in injector chain ⓘ injector flexibility for different beam types ⓘ injector reliability ⓘ |
| includesUpgrade |
PS Booster energy increase to 2 GeV injection
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Proton Synchrotron beam quality improvements ⓘ Super Proton Synchrotron intensity and reliability upgrades ⓘ new Linac4 as proton source ⓘ new RF systems in injectors ⓘ new beam instrumentation in injectors ⓘ new collimation and protection devices in injectors ⓘ new injection and extraction systems in injectors ⓘ |
| location |
CERN
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surface form:
CERN, Geneva region, Switzerland
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| motivatedBy |
need for higher luminosity in future LHC runs
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requirements of High-Luminosity LHC physics program ⓘ |
| partOf |
CERN accelerator complex
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High-Luminosity LHC ⓘ
surface form:
High-Luminosity LHC program
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| relatedTo |
LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
CERN Long Shutdown 2
LHC machine upgrade ⓘ |
| replaces | Linac2 as LHC proton injector ⓘ |
| serves | Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
| sponsor | CERN ⓘ |
| startDate | around 2010s ⓘ |
| website | https://liu.web.cern.ch/ ⓘ |
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