By Nicolas Heredia Garcia (CERN)

Following the installation of the superconducting link, significant progress has been made on the IT String test facility, including the Q2a and D1 cryoassemblies. 

By Amalia Ballarino (CERN)

CERN and Uppsala University celebrate successful completion of manufacturing of the components for the full series of DFHX and DFHM cryostats.

By Juan Carlos Perez

We have just celebrated the completion of the assembly of the third magnet at CERN facilities. Two have already been successfully tested.

By Florence Thompson (CERN)

The 14th Collaboration Meeting took place in Genoa, Italy, from 7th-10th October 2024 and brought together nearly 200 participants from across the project, from both CERN and the Project’s collaborators.

By Florence Thompson (CERN)

An impressive operation took place in CERN’s magnet test hall, SM18. The High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) based Cold Powering System has been installed into the Inner Triplet (IT) String.

By Mike Lamont

The timing and duration of the third long shutdown (LS3) of the Large Hadron Collider and injector complex has changed, here’s why.

By Pedro Costa Pinto (CERN)

The non-crabbed line in the cryomodules for the HL-LHC crab cavities host a carbon-coated beam screen. This coating reduces the emission of secondary electrons from the beam screen surface.

By Marco Buzio, Olivier Pirotte, Frédéric Savary, Gerard Willering (CERN - TE Department)

The qualification tests of the new cryo-magnet assemblies, to ensure their compliance with the HL-LHC specifications, requires a substantial upgrade of the cryogenic test stations in SM18.

By Gabriel Banks and Nicola Solieri (CERN)

This experiment is a crucial step in validating the material selection for the HL-LHC beam dumps (TDEs) and is the product of around 12 months of ideation and planning.

By Nicolas Heredia Garcia, Aleksandra Onufrena, Antonio Perin, and Davide Bozzini (CERN)

The SQXL cryogenic line, an essential component of the HL-LHC IT String, has recently undergone an additional series of commissioning tests in standalone mode without the magnets.