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Promising second mock-up coil for the MQYY magnet
Second mock-up coil for the MQYY magnet after winding and polymerization.
Successful tests of a cooler way to transport electricity
Tests being carried out on the superconducting power line.
A new JTT shielding adapting ATLAS to Hilumi configuration
For the HL-LHC Collider-Experiment Interface Work Package, their LS3 started last January with the manoeuvres to remove the ATLAS end cup toroid (JTT) shielding (Image: F. Sanchez Galan, CERN).
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
Article written by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi and published online by Nature Reviews Physics (2019) on 18 March 2019: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0050-6. A read online version is available for those without a subscription here: https://rdcu.be/brXCk
The first of four dispersion suppressor collimators arrived at CERN
The first TCLD collimator produced in industry arrived at CERN on January 30th. This is the first of four dispersion suppressor collimators that will be installed around IP2 and IP7 to improve the collimation performance.
First civil-engineering milestone passed for the High-Luminosity LHC
Excavation of the two new shafts for the HL-LHC at points 1 and 5 of the accelerator has been completed,
A delicate maneuver
The WP8 team successfully extracted the JTT from the ATLAS detector on 11 January!
The year of the crab
Tests carried out in 2018 on two crab cavities in the SPS validated their technical principle and many operating parameters, CERN Bulletin.