Tag: Collaboration

  • Council delegates visit new High-Luminosity LHC infrastructure | home.cern

    Council delegates visit new High-Luminosity LHC infrastructure | home.cern On 23 September, 16 CERN Council delegates visited the new underground cavern at Point 1. Read on home.cern Read more news

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  • RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK

    RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK By Rama Calaga, WP4 Leader (CERN) Following the very successful RF test, the RF Dipole 2 dressed cavity was equipped with a beam screen in the adjacent vacuum chamber that runs parallel to the cavity inside the Helium tank assembly.  The fully assembled RF dipole 2

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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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  • Visit and crab cavities workshop for RI

    Visit and crab cavities workshop for RI By N. Valverde, WP4 RI Research Instruments, the German company in charge of the fabrication of DQW crab cavities for HL-LHC project, visited CERN on 2 February. The aim of the visit was to profit from the knowledge gained at CERN during the fabrication of prototype cavities. Numerous

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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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  • 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

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  • Upgrade to Large Hadron Collider underway

    Upgrade to Large Hadron Collider underway Scientists, engineers and technicians from the UK have embarked on a £26 million project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva. Read more: stfc.ukri.org Read more news

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  • HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested | CERN Courier

    HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested | CERN Courier By Matthew Chalmers (CERN) in the CERN Courier “A quadrupole magnet for the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has been tested successfully in the US, attaining a conductor peak field of 11.4 T – a record for a focusing magnet ready for installation in an accelerator”. Read in the

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  • 8th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, CERN, 15-18 October 2018

    8th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting, CERN, 15-18 October 2018 Following the 7th HL-LHC Annual Meeting held in Madrid on 13-17 November 2017, the 8th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting will be organised at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland from 15 to 18 October 2018. This Annual Meeting will see the participation of all main HL-LHC contributors: the US HL-LHC AUP, involving five

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