Frédérick Bordry, Director of CERN’s Accelerators and Technology Sector since 2014, opens the lecture series “CERN Restarts the LHC and Prepares for Its Future” with a talk focused on the new phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the technological challenges involved in bringing it back into operation.
Following a two-year technical shutdown, the LHC resumed data taking in 2015 at a record energy of 13 TeV. Bordry explains the process required to reach this level of performance and reviews the main technical challenges of a 27-kilometre-circumference infrastructure designed to explore matter at the energy frontier. He also presents planned upgrades to the accelerator and its detectors through the High-Luminosity LHC programme and outlines some of the scientific and technological options for the post-LHC era.
The BBVA Foundation and CERN jointly organise the lecture
Frédérick Bordry, Director of CERN’s Accelerators and Technology Sector since 2014, opens the lecture series “CERN Restarts the LHC and Prepares for Its Future” with a talk focused on the new phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the technological challenges involved in bringing it back into operation.
Following a two-year technical shutdown, the LHC resumed data taking in 2015 at a record energy of 13 TeV. Bordry explains the process required to reach this level of performance and reviews the main technical challenges of a 27-kilometre-circumference infrastructure designed to explore matter at the energy frontier. He also presents planned upgrades to the accelerator and its detectors through the High-Luminosity LHC programme and outlines some of the scientific and technological options for the post-LHC era.
The BBVA Foundation and CERN jointly organise the lecture series “CERN Restarts the LHC and Prepares for Its Future”. The programme addresses current and future challenges in particle physics, the restart of the accelerator at unprecedented energy levels and CERN’s strategy in high-energy and nuclear physics, as well as the role of technologies, computing systems and data processing in large-scale scientific infrastructures.
