A new schedule for the commissioning of the LHC was presented to the Council at its Session in June. The start-up of the accelerator is scheduled for May 2008, to allow all technical problems to be resolved.
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As I announced to you in my speech on 27 June, one of the Council’s key decisions in June concerned the approval of the programme of proposed additional activities and of the associated additional budget resources amounting to 240 million Swiss francs for the period from 2008 to 2011.
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Members of the LHCb collaboration and of the AT and TS Departments are ready to pop open the champagne bottles and celebrate the complete installation and commissioning of the LHCb experiment’s beam pipe.
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On 2 July, the IT/CS Telecom Service introduced a new service making external calls from CERN GSM phones easier. A specific prefix is no longer needed for calls outside CERN.
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Ted Wilson is a world-renowned expert on particle accelerators and a brilliant speaker. He came to CERN in 1967, where he worked on the SPS and collaborated closely with John Adams, taking part in the design and commissioning of the accelerator.
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Do you know which force is hidden in an envelope or how many billions of years old are the atoms it contains? You will find the answers to these (curious) questions in a post office in the Pays de Gex.
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The CERN Musiclub and Softball club invite you to the 18th CERN Hardronic Festival on 21st July. It will take place on the terrace of Restaurant 3 on the CERN Prevessin Site.
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