North Area

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Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
Accelerators
News
12 October, 2023

SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US

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Physics
07 June, 2023
Physics
News
07 June, 2023

NA65

Experiments
Experiments

LS2 Report: Accelerated beams in the SPS

The SPS accelerated its first LHC-type beam in May and is now sending beams to the North Area, where the physics season has started

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Accelerators
12 August, 2021
Accelerators
News
12 August, 2021

NA64

Experiments
Experiments

MADMAX and CERN’s Morpurgo magnet

A new collaboration, MADMAX, will seize the chance to use a CERN magnet named Morpurgo to test their dark-matter prototype

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Experiments
10 November, 2020
Experiments
News
10 November, 2020

NA64 explores gap in searches for axions and axion-like particles

The NA64 collaboration has conducted its first search for axions and axion-like particles, targeting an unexplored area

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Physics
22 June, 2020

LS2 Report: Focus on the North area

Parts of the infrastructure in the vast North Area, which is supplied by the Super Proton Synchrotron, are being renovated

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Engineering
15 January, 2020
Engineering
News
15 January, 2020

The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle

Additional evidence of an unknown particle from a Hungarian lab gives a new impetus to NA64 searches

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Physics
27 November, 2019

NA64 casts light on dark photons

The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart

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Physics
22 July, 2019
Physics
News
22 July, 2019

Celebrating 40 years of physics at CERN’s North Area

A symposium at CERN celebrates four decades of physics research at the Laboratory’s North Area

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Physics
02 April, 2019