Category: 1. Project News
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HL-LHC: keeping an eye on state-of-the-art electrical metrology | Accelerating News
HL-LHC: keeping an eye on state-of-the-art electrical metrology | Accelerating News By M. Bastos, N. Been, and M. Martino (CERN) in Accelerating News What links the High Luminosity LHC project, and in particular WP6B, to the cutting-edge progress in Metrology research? A new quantum standard for AC voltage measurements was announced last week. This standard, which is
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HL-LHC and Fermilab, reinforcing collaborations
HL-LHC and Fermilab, reinforcing collaborations By Irene Garcia Obrero (CERN) Last Tuesday 23 March, the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was held remotely. The agreement, which details the US laboratory’s contributions to the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, represents
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D2 short model tests results
D2 short model tests results The D2 short model built under the collaboration agreement with INFN Genova, was tested in SM18, CERN, last August. This assembly, named MBRDS1c, which had one aperture replaced after finding a major damage in the cable at the location of the layer jump, is the only short model of the
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Visit of the VAX mock-up in Building 186
Visit of the VAX mock-up in Building 186 This morning, the WP8 leader, Francisco Sánchez Galán, invited the management of the HL-LHC project to visit the VAX mock-up in Building 186. The VAX (Vacuum Assembly for eXperimental area) modules are composed of different vacuum and instrumentation components that will be hosted on the experimental side
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Demo 3, a new successful milestone for the WP6A team
Demo 3, a new successful milestone for the WP6A team After the successful qualification, in September 2020, of the prototype Cold Powering System for the HL-LHC Triplets (WP6A Demo2), the cold powering system for the HL-LHC Matching Sections has successfully been qualified at CERN (WP6A Demo 3). Both systems incorporate 60 m long power transmission lines
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Installation of the last absorber TDIS at P8
Installation of the last absorber TDIS at P8 Four months after the installation of the first unit at Point 2 of the LHC, the second and last TDIS are being integrated into the machine at P8. As per last time, the equipment has been lowered through P1 into the tunnel and hauled for 3 km on
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Cold diodes for the inner triplet circuit of the High Luminosity LHC
Cold diodes for the inner triplet circuit of the High Luminosity LHC By Daniel Wollmann (CERN). The cold diodes of the new triplet circuits will be installed in a dedicated cryostat in the LHC tunnel downstream of the triplet magnets and close to the LHC beam pipe. Read more in Accelerating News | Issue 34. Read more
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Phase 2 of Large Hadron Collider upgrade project launched in the UK
Phase 2 of Large Hadron Collider upgrade project launched in the UK By Rob Appleby (University of Manchester). Read more in Accelerating News | Issue 34. Read more news
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MQSXFP1c and MCDXF01 test at INFN LASA
MQSXFP1c and MCDXF01 test at INFN LASA Last month, the INFN LASA team tested the third assembly of the skew quadrupole corrector magnet MQSXFP1c and the first series production high order corrector, a decapole MCDXF01. The two magnets, which were cooled together and powered individually, were tested at 4.2K and the results were extremely positive. For
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First D2 corrector prototype manufactured by IHEP collaboration
First D2 corrector prototype manufactured by IHEP collaboration In the past few months, the first D2 corrector prototype, built by a Chinese collaboration steered by IHEP in Beijing, has been completed. The magnet was manufactured by Western Superconducting Technologies, Xi’an and was tested at 4.2 K in the Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou. The magnet reached the ultimate field in both apertures, as