Tag: WP16 – IT String and Commissioning
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Upcoming online training on Superconducting Magnet test stands, Magnet protections and Diagnostics
After difficult years of pandemics, the Superconducting Magnet Test Facility Workshop (SMTF), started in 2016, resumed in April 2023.
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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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Cryogenic Distribution Line, Demineralised Water System, Circuit Disconnector Boxes… The HL-LHC IT String is taking shape | Accelerating News
Cryogenic Distribution Line, Demineralised Water System, Circuit Disconnector Boxes… The HL-LHC IT String is taking shape | Accelerating News By WP16 HL-LHC IT String team in Accelerating News As mentioned on other occasions, the HL-LHC IT String is a key milestone for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). It will enable the project to test the collective behaviour
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The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era | home.cern
The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era | home.cern By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern The SM18 test facility, located in France, near the Meyrin site, was originally built to test and validate the magnets and radiofrequency (RF) cavities of LEP (the Large Electron–Positron Collider). It has since seen over 1700 such components pass through it – including, of
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First CDB systems in the HL-LHC IT String
First CDB systems in the HL-LHC IT String By Samer Yammine, HL-LHC WP16 (CERN) After the introduction of the Circuit Disconnector Boxes (CDBs) in the HL-LHC baseline in 2020 as seen in the HL-LHC engineering change request LHC-RP-EC-0005, the deliverables required to connect to the Inner Triplet (IT) powering cluster are already installed in their
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Production of the first HL-LHC jacks units in Serbia
Production of the first HL-LHC jacks units in Serbia By Prof. Peter Adzic and Beniamino di Girolamo Validation loading tests for the first HL-LHC jacks produced by UNIOR components d.o.o, a Serbian Company. They are part of an order for nineteen longitudinal jacks and four central jacks that will be used to support the magnets in
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The IT String control room gets ready!
The IT String control room gets ready! By the WP16 HL-LHC IT STRING team (CERN) A room in SM18 (2173/1-S06) has recently been refurbished to become the control room of the HL-LHC IT String. The HL-LHC IT String will test the collective behaviour of the components of the interaction zones, designed for the new High-Luminosity
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The HL-LHC’s IT String home gets ready | Accelerating News
The HL-LHC’s IT String home gets ready | Accelerating News By WP16 HL-LHC IT String team (CERN) in Accelerating News The new metallic structure, installed in SM18, will be part of the IT String Test Stand. It will house the main components of the HL-LHC powering systems, due for arrival at the end of 2022.
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Updated IT String installation and operation schedule
Updated IT String installation and operation schedule By Marta Bajko, WP16 Leader Since the liberation of the zone at the end of 2020, the WP16 team has made impressive progress in the preparation and installation of the infrastructure of what is to become the home of the HL-LHC IT String in the SM18. The IT