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BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN
The 8th Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) Collaboration Meeting was held at CERN in early April. The two-day meeting, organized by WP13 in collaboration with Cockcroft Institute (CI) and GSI, brought together senior scientists and the collaboration members from these institutions, including a number of young researchers. It also coincided with the presence of the CI…
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The DFH Cold Boxes produced in a CERN–FREIA/Uppsala University collaboration involving the Swedish RFR industrial company
This collaboration concerns the cryostat devices that will house and connect the HTS REBCO current leads to the MgB2 Superconducting Links powering the HL-LHC magnets. Nine cryostats (4 DFHX for the inner triplets and 5 DFHM for the matching section magnets) are to be manufactured. The fabrication of the cryostats is based on a “build-to-print”…
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First beam commissioning of the new HL-LHC collimators at the LHC
The HL-LHC WP5 activities started in LS2 with some important upgrades in preparation to the full deployment of HL-LHC in LS3. The first phase of the collimation system upgrade during LS2 involved the installation of: The updated LHC collimation system layout for the recently started Run 3 is shown in Figure 1. Primary collimators and…