The disconnection of the LHC has begun | home.cern
Work has begun to disconnect the focusing magnets on either side of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, a key step on the road to the HiLumi LHC.
By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern
“Today’s event is a major milestone for CERN, especially for the HiLumi LHC project team.The current inner triplets date back to the LHC construction phase and were installed in the machine between 2005 and 2007.After nearly twenty years of operation, they will give way to a new generation of even more powerful magnets.It’s truly remarkable to witness such a handover from one generation of innovation to the next,” says Markus Zerlauth, the HiLumi LHC Project Leader.