Linac

Linear accelerator. For more information, see Wikipedia.

CERN linacs

Linac

The Linac, some times referred to as the PS Linac and much later Linac 1, was CERN's first linear accelerator, built to inject 50 MeV protons into the Proton Synchrotron (PS). For more information, see Wikipedia.

Linac 2

Linac 2, in the beginning simply referred to as the new Linac was announced in 1973. It was decided to build a new linear accelerator, since the old Linac was unable to keep up with the technical advances of the other machines within CERN's accelerator complex. For more information, see Wikipedia.

Linac 3

Linac 3, also referred to as the Lead Linac was constructed inside the former tunnel of Linac 1 and got commissioned in the summer of 1994 (construction started October 1992). For more information, see Wikipedia.

Linac4

While Linac 2 and Linac 3 is written with a space, Linac4 shall be written without. The first injection of a particle beam from Linac 4 into the PSB occurred in December 2020. For more information, see Wikipedia.