DFX #1 already at CERN

DFX #1 already at CERN

DFX #1

Dr Wendell Bailey next to the DFX before being sent to CERN (Image: Southampton University)

The first DFX cryostat, supplied via the STFC and CERN funded HL-LHC-UK Collaboration, was shipped from the UK on 25 March.

This is a pre-series unit and a cornerstone of the so-called ‘Cold Powering prototype system test’ on the F2 test bench in SM18 during 2022.

Congratulations to the University of Southampton team headed by Prof Yifeng Yang and Dr Wendell Bailey and to their UK industrial partner, LTi Metaltech, on this important milestone for the HL-LHC WP6A Cold Powering work package.

Amalia Ballarino, Paul Cruickshank & Yann Leclercq on behalf of WP6A