The HL-LHC’s cold powering system successfully passed the tests

By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on CERN News

Work Package 6A (Cold Powering) team responsible for the construction and validation of the cold-powering system prototype in SM18 (Credit: CERN/ C. Noels)

This is the first time that a full power transmission system, transferring current from room temperature to the liquid helium environment via MgB2 and REBCO superconducting technology, has been constructed and successfully validated in final operating conditions.

“This great success is the result of ten years of R&D,” says Amalia Ballarino, leader of Work Package 6A, responsible for the Cold Powering System. 

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