Autopsy of an LHC beam dump | home.cern

By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern

The beam dump is moved into the radiation airlock installation specially constructed for the autopsy. (Image: CERN)

For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams.

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