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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Predicate Object
instanceOf CERN accelerator upgrade project
Large Hadron Collider injector upgrade program
affects ion beams for LHC
proton beams for LHC
alternateName LIU
LIU project
appliesTo Linac4
Proton Synchrotron
Proton Synchrotron Booster
Super Proton Synchrotron
associatedWith High-Luminosity LHC upgrade schedule
country Switzerland
enables higher LHC beam brightness
higher LHC bunch intensity
higher LHC integrated luminosity
higher LHC peak luminosity
smaller LHC beam emittance
field high-energy physics infrastructure
particle accelerator technology
hasGoal enable higher LHC luminosity
increase beam intensity for the LHC
modernize the LHC injector chain
prepare injectors for High-Luminosity LHC operation
improves beam brightness in injector chain
beam intensity in injector chain
injector flexibility for different beam types
injector reliability
includesUpgrade PS Booster energy increase to 2 GeV injection
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
surface form: CERN, Geneva region, Switzerland
motivatedBy need for higher luminosity in future LHC runs
requirements of High-Luminosity LHC physics program
partOf CERN accelerator complex
High-Luminosity LHC
surface form: High-Luminosity LHC program
relatedTo LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) self-linksurface differs
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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LIU fullName LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
this entity surface form: LHC Injectors Upgrade
LIU project fullName LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
this entity surface form: LHC Injectors Upgrade project
Linac4 relatedProject LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) relatedTo LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: LHC Injectors Upgrade
this entity surface form: CERN Long Shutdown 2
Proton Synchrotron Booster upgradeProgram LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU)
this entity surface form: LHC Injectors Upgrade