Tag: Collaboration

  • First magnet from the US Accelerator Upgrade Project shipped to CERN

    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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  • Kick-off for the Canadian Contribution during the 13th HL-LHC Collaboration meeting in Vancouver

    Kick-off for the Canadian Contribution during the 13th HL-LHC Collaboration meeting in Vancouver

    As the LHC’s third operational run approaches the halfway point, the High-Luminosity upgrade project and its international collaboration are now fully focusing on the series production of all project deliverables in view of their installation and validation in the LHC tunnel as of the start of LS3 in 2026.

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  • Recombination dipole prototype successfully tested for the LHC’s high-luminosity upgrade

    Recombination dipole prototype successfully tested for the LHC’s high-luminosity upgrade

    The D2 prototype magnet, developed and manufactured in Italy, has been integrated and tested in the longest HL-LHC cold mass with corrector magnets from China and CERN

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  • Cabling for LHC Upgrade Wraps Up

    Cabling for LHC Upgrade Wraps Up

    Experts at Berkeley Lab finished winding more than 2000 kilometers of superconducting wire into cables for new magnets that will help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider and the search for new physics

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  • D1 first series magnet test in KEK

    D1 first series magnet test in KEK

    In the month of June, the first series separation dipole magnet MBXF1, manufactured in Hitachi (Japan), was tested at KEK in vertical position at 1.9 K.

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  • D2 prototype test results

    D2 prototype test results

    The power tests of the D2 prototype were completed in May. This is the first full-size recombination dipole giving 4.5 T over a 7.8 m magnetic length, manufactured at ASG under the helm of INFN Genova.

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  • Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnet

    Recovery of an HL-LHC niobium–tin magnet

    The successful replacement of a coil in an HL-LHC niobium–tin quadrupole magnet by the US Accelerator Upgrade Project team has showcased this crucial technology’s flexibility and cost-effectiveness, CERN News.

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  • 54 magnets: The High-Luminosity LHC receives its first in-kind contribution

    54 magnets: The High-Luminosity LHC receives its first in-kind contribution

    By Marco Statera (LASA) – The completion of the High Order Corrector Magnet project was only made possible by the collaborative efforts of INFN, CERN, and industry, Accelerating News.

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  • News from the Chamonix workshop

    News from the Chamonix workshop

    News from the Chamonix workshop | home.cern By Mike Lamont (CERN) on home.cern There has been sustained international effort and good progress on the HL-LHC magnet front. The production of the interaction region magnets is progressing well, and prototyping and production of the NbTi magnets have passed through critical phases. The INFN twin aperture D2

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  • 12th Collaboration meeting of the HL-LHC project, finally live again!

    12th Collaboration meeting of the HL-LHC project, finally live again!

    12th Collaboration meeting of the HL-LHC project, finally live again! By Oliver Brüning and Markus Zerlauth (CERN) Following the completion of the second Long Shutdown (LS2) and the successful re-start of CERNs accelerator complex for its 3rd operational run, efforts at CERN and across the High-Luminosity collaboration are now focusing on the series production of all

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