{
  "id": 2121265,
  "title": "Accelerator Report: Final countdown – CERN’s injector complex enters its last stretch before LS3",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/accelerator-report-final-countdown-cerns-injector-complex-enters-its",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:30:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CERN",
    "slug": "cern",
    "url": "https://home.cern/accelerator-report-final-countdown-cerns-injector-complex-enters-its-last-stretch-before-ls3/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The LHC has already fallen silent for Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), but elsewhere across CERN’s accelerator complex the pace remains intense. With just a week and a half of beam operation remaining, the countdown has begun for all the machines, which will switch off their beams at 6.00 a.m. on Monday, 31 August, marking the […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}