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Planning of the 2024 Annual Meeting and Cost & Schedule Review
Our annual HiLumi Cost & Schedule Review (CSR) will take place between the 11th and 14th November. After another lively procurement year, where commitments are expected to reach 74% of the budget at completion by the end of the year, we need to consolidate the status of the full project for what might be the…
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The challenges of magnet sorting for the HL-LHC
Magnet sorting is a challenging process that aims at improving the performance of a particle accelerator by the clever choice of the position of the magnets to induce a natural compensation of the field errors that are inevitable in modern superconducting magnets. These studies are intrinsically multi-faceted and an appropriate figure of merit should be…
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Long Shutdown 3 schedule and readiness review
The HL-LHC Project will culminate with the accomplishment of a very demanding installation phase during the Long Shutdown 3 (LS3). To assess the project’s readiness, a tracking process on the expected availability of equipment has been implemented. The careful follow-up of this installation schedule float plays an important role in the strategical decision-making process. It…