Author: Paul Lujan
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Planning for years of luminosity measurements with BRIL
When the LHC is sending billions of protons at each other millions of times per second, it’s important to know just how many of them actually are colliding, both so that the LHC can optimize its operations to produce the most collisions possible, and as an important input to nearly any measurement that will be…
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Technology used for 3D colour X-ray helps to monitor radiation at CMS
When the Large Hadron Collider is in operation, the cavern containing the CMS detector is an extremely inhospitable place, due to the high-energy radiation produced by the collisions.