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Update on the Collaboration Members and Contributions
The 8th HL-LHC Collaboration Board took place during the last HL-LHC Annual Meeting in October 2018 at CERN. During the last months, several collaboration agreements have been prepared and are in the process of signature or advanced stage of finalization. – INFN for the production of the D2 cold masses. INFN is finalizing prototypes and…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 3
As mentioned in the closing remarks of the 8th HL-LHC Annual Meeting held at CERN (18th October 2018), the project is experiencing a mix of success and difficulties while passing from design and industrialization into construction. The most delicate point is certainly the unexpected bad behaviors of some prototypes and model magnets. The HL-LHC magnets…
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Update on Civil Engineering Work for HL-LHC
The two civil-engineering contractors, MARTI for the Point 1 works and IMPLENIA for the Point 5 works, are fully mobilized. The excavations of the shafts at Points 1 and 5 were completed in February 2019 and December 2018, respectively. The shaft excavation were performed during the LHC physics Run2, with very minor impacts on the…