Category: 1. Project News
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US-AUP MQXFA magnet production already halfway to target
On March 2024, US magnet MQXFA15 cold test was successfully completed at the BNL Vertical Magnet Test facility. This magnet is the 10th MQXFA magnet meeting HL-LHC requirements.
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First CLIQ units ready for installation in the HL-LHC IT String
The Coupling-Loss-Induced-Quench (CLIQ) units will be integrated into the novel quench protection system for the HL-LHC Inner Triplet superconducting magnets at CERN.
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HL-LHC Beam Screen Production
The production of the HL-LHC shielded beam screens entered a new phase. Indeed, the assembly of the tungsten absorbers on the beam screen tubes started in the CERN beam screen facility.
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Installation of Laser Engineered Demonstrator Chamber in the LHC
During the ongoing EYETS 2023/24, the vacuum group has successfully installed as part of the WP12 scope a first demonstrator of a laser engineered
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UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade
The first pre-series cryomodule equipped with superconducting Radio Frequency Dipole (RFD) crab cavities was completed in October 2023 at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s Daresbury Laboratory as a collaboration between HL-LHC-UK and CERN
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Protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator
The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator
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Cool kickers for the HL-LHC
SY Department – Successful tests of the first “MKI-Cool” show that these new kicker magnets can take the heat and keep their cool with high-luminosity beams, CERN News.
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HL-LHC counts down to LS3
With less than two years of LHC operations before the start of long-shutdown three (LS3), when the main installation phase of the High-Luminosity LHC will begin, Oliver Brüning and Markus Zerlauth describe the latest progress and next steps for the validation of key technologies, tests of prototypes and the series production of equipment, CERN Courier.
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First magnet from the US Accelerator Upgrade Project shipped to CERN
At the beginning of December, CERN received an important shipment. It contained a cryo-assembly of two 4.2-m-long magnets developed by the Accelerator Upgrade Project in the US.
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Double-quarter wave crab cavity ready for the final phase of string assembly and cryostating
The first industrially produced superconducting double-quarter wave crab cavity for the HL-LHC was equipped with RF ancillaries produced at CERN and tested at 2 Kelvin in its final configuration.