Category: 1. Project News
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United States crab cavity program springs forward into production after successful test of prototypes | Accelerating News
United States crab cavity program springs forward into production after successful test of prototypes | Accelerating News By Rama Calaga (CERN) and Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab) in Accelerating News By Rama Calaga (CERN) and Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab) – Crab cavities are critical to increase the number of interactions. After successful prototyping and testing, the US programme
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Series production of HL-LHC superferric High Order correctors is completed
Series production of HL-LHC superferric High Order correctors is completed The High Order correctors for the HL-LHC project are designed to compensate for field quality errors of the main final focusing quadrupoles in the Interaction Regions of the high luminosity experiments ATLAS and CMS. They were designed at INFN LASA Milano and have been manufactured
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Entering a new chapter for the HL-LHC project | home.cern
Entering a new chapter for the HL-LHC project By Oliver Brüning and Markus Zerlauth (CERN) on home.cern More than 200 participants gathered online at the 11th annual HL-LHC collaboration meeting to take stock of CERN’s flagship project as it starts taking shape on an industrial scale. Read on home.cern Read more news
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MCBXFB magnets ready for series production after successful design iteration
MCBXFB magnets ready for series production after successful design iteration By J. C. Perez and E. Todesco, TE Dept, MSC group, HL-LHC (CERN) In the HL-LHC machine, to be installed during the third long shutdown (LS3), the family of magnets named MCBXF (see figure above) will be located on both sides of the ATLAS and
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RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK
RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK By Rama Calaga, WP4 Leader (CERN) Following the very successful RF test, the RF Dipole 2 dressed cavity was equipped with a beam screen in the adjacent vacuum chamber that runs parallel to the cavity inside the Helium tank assembly. The fully assembled RF dipole 2
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CERN acquires four new buildings for the High-Luminosity LHC | home.cern
CERN acquires four new buildings for the High-Luminosity LHC | home.cern By Thomas Hortala (CERN) on home.cern Four buildings set to house technical infrastructure for the future accelerator were delivered to CERN by contractors between June and September. Read on home.cern. Related photos: link. Read more news
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JTT installation completed
JTT installation completed By Oliver Boettcher and Francisco Sanchez-Galan, HL-LHC WP8 (CERN) Exactly one week after installing the first JTT on ATLAS A-side (August 12th), the second JTT on the C-side was also successfully completed on August 19th. These achievements were the product of intensive activity coordination and a high level of commitment of all
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QUACO at the finish line | Accelerating News
QUACO at the finish line | Accelerating News By Marcello Losasso (CERN) in Accelerating News Two 90-mm Niobium-titanium (NbTi) double-aperture quadrupole magnets, also called MQYY in the LHC vernacular, have been developed and manufactured by the companies Elytt Energy and SigmaPhi under the QUACO project for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrades. Read in Accelerating News. Related photos: link and link. Read more
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Separation dipole prototype test results of the first run
Separation dipole prototype test results of the first run By E. Todesco (CERN) and T. Nakamoto (KEK) Six separation dipoles will be delivered to CERN as in-kind contribution from Japan. The magnet design, manufacturing and testing is steered by a team led by Tatsu Nakamoto in KEK laboratories. In 2019 the short model program was