Category: 1. Project News
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MQXFA05 and MQXFA06 vertical test results
MQXFA05 and MQXFA06 vertical test results By Maria Baldini (Fermilab) The US Accelerator Upgrade Project (US-HL-LHC AUP) and CERN are designing and fabricating superconducting quadrupole magnets (MQXF) for a new interaction region of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The Nb3Sn quadrupole magnets operate in superfluid He at 1.9 K, providing an integrated gradient
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Qualifying HL-LHC magnets and cavities at Uppsala University | Accelerating News
Qualifying HL-LHC magnets and cavities at Uppsala University | Accelerating News By Roger Ruber (CERN), Kevin Pepitone, and Akira Miyazaki (Uppsala University) in Accelerating News Uppsala University in Sweden has been a valuable partner to CERN since the Laboratory’s foundation. In the 1950s, Uppsala, having just constructed its own cyclotron, contributed to the development of
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Welcoming of the SigmaPhi magnet of the QUACO project
Welcoming of the SigmaPhi magnet of the QUACO project On the morning of 15 June, the QUACO quadrupole magnet manufactured by the French company SigmaPhi arrived at CERN. The magnet is now in B311, where magnetics measurements in one of the two apertures will be carried out to characterise the field performance. Called MQYY, this magnet is
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The High-Luminosity LHC project takes shape at Point 1
The High-Luminosity LHC project takes shape at Point 1 By Thomas Hortala (CERN) The construction of an underground cavern at Point 1, which will house equipment for the High-Luminosity LHC, has been successfully completed. Read on home.cern, and available on CERN Alumni Related photos: link. Related video: link. Read more news
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Arrival of Elytt’s magnet, from the QUACO project, at CERN
Arrival of Elytt’s magnet, from the QUACO project, at CERN The first of the two QUACO quadrupole magnets, developed by the Spanish company Elytt Energy, arrived at CERN at the beginning of March. Magnetic measurements, which are expected to characterize the field performances, are being carried out at CERN in B311 and are almost complete. This
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Bringing Superconducting Power Transmission for HL-LHC from concept to reality
Bringing Superconducting Power Transmission for HL-LHC from concept to reality By Amalia Ballarino (CERN) in Accelerating News Nb-Ti, MgB2 and ReBCO: a combination of conventional and novel superconductors for the powering of the HL-LHC magnets. Demo 2 and Demo 3 demonstration systems were successfully qualified at CERN in 2020. Read in Accelerating News Read more
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The superconducting coils for the 11 T dipoles have been delivered
The superconducting coils for the 11 T dipoles have been delivered By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) in Accelerating News 35 niobium–tin superconducting coils have been manufactured as part of a fruitful collaboration with the company General Electric. They will be used in the 11 T dipoles for the HL-LHC. Read in Accelerating News. Read more news
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Intercepting the beams | CERN Courier
Intercepting the beams | CERN Courier By Marco Calviani (CERN) in the CERN Courier From targets to absorbers, beam-intercepting devices are vital to CERN’s accelerator complex. Marco Calviani describes the major upgrades taking place to prepare for the high-luminosity LHC, and the challenges posed by future projects. Read in the CERN Courier Read more news
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Completion of WP5 activities
Completion of WP5 activities By S. Redaelli, WP5 Leader, and I. Lamas, TCD section (CERN) Various important upgrades were planned for WP5 in LS2: a first phase of the impedance-reduction program for the secondary and primary collimators in IR7 and the deployment of the dispersion suppressor collimators around IR2 and IR7. Together with the activity related to the consolidation
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17th CMAC meeting – Review of the 11 T magnet programme
17th CMAC meeting – Review of the 11 T magnet programme By Markus Zerlauth, HL-LHC Deputy Project leader (CERN) As planned in the HL-LHC WP11 baseline, five 11T series magnets have been completed to date, out of which three have successfully reached stable nominal performance after first cooldown. Following thermal cycles, some magnets have shown