Tag: WP6B – Warm Powering
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At the intersection of accelerator engineering and high-precision measurement science: 2025 Andy Chi Award received by a CERN contribution
The article Design and Metrological Characterization of a Digitizer for the Highest Precision Magnet Powering in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider,
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New power converters will soon be installed in the HL-LHC IT String
The power converters HL-LHC2kA-10V are four-quadrant linear and modular converters that can provide voltages ranging from -10 volts to 10 volts and currents ranging from -2000 amperes to 2000 amperes.
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HL-LHC Magnet Circuit Instrumentation Day 2023
ollowing the HL-LHC Circuit Instrumentation Detailed Design Review held in September 2020, the HL-LHC Magnet Circuit Instrumentation Day 2023 successfully took place on the 20th of June 2023 in the Kjell Johnsen Auditorium at CERN as an in-person meeting.
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Successful validation at CERN of the final class 2 DCCT prototype gives the green light to the pre-series phase
The HL-LHC “Class 2” high precision current measurement devices, or DCCTs (direct current current transformers), are used for the accurate current measurement/regulation in the 2kA Inner Triplet Trims and Orbit Correctors power converters.
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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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Successful prototype validation of ultra-high precision current measurement devices for HL-LHC
Successful prototype validation of ultra-high precision current measurement devices for HL-LHC By Greg Hudson, on behalf of WP6B (CERN) The WP6B “Class 0” ultra-high precision current measurement devices, or DCCTs (direct current current transformers), are used for the accurate current measurement/regulation in the 14kA (D1: MBXF, D2: MBRD) and 18kA (Main Inner Triplet) power converters. Two prototype
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HL-LHC: keeping an eye on state-of-the-art electrical metrology | Accelerating News
HL-LHC: keeping an eye on state-of-the-art electrical metrology | Accelerating News By M. Bastos, N. Been, and M. Martino (CERN) in Accelerating News What links the High Luminosity LHC project, and in particular WP6B, to the cutting-edge progress in Metrology research? A new quantum standard for AC voltage measurements was announced last week. This standard, which is
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High-Precision Digitizer for High Luminosity LHC
High-Precision Digitizer for High Luminosity LHC “The CERN Electrical Power Converters Group developed a new metrology-grade digitizer, part of that high-precision measurement system. The new digitizer will be employed in the power converters of the Inner Triplet quadrupoles and separation/recombination dipole magnets of the HL-LHC”. Read in Accelerating News Read more news
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Congratulations to Emilien!
Congratulations to Emilien! Congratulations to Emilien Coulinge who successfully defended his thesis on “High-Current Low-Voltage Power Supply for Superconducting Magnets” on March 25, 2020 even though the COVID-19 situation forced the complete examination to be done online! Image: EPFL Full details here Read more news