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The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

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Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi discuss an upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), which aims to significantly increase the luminosity.

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Fig. 1: The LHC and the HL-LHC baseline plan for the next decade and beyond.

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    Oliver Brüning & Lucio Rossi

  2. Physics Department, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Lucio Rossi

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Brüning, O., Rossi, L. The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. Nat Rev Phys 1, 241–243 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0050-6

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