Category: Issue 06
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 6
Progress since the last collaboration meeting in October 2021 has been impressive and the project passed several key milestones for the project implementation despite the turbulences caused by COVID-19 and the crisis in Ukraine. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the successful endurance test validation of the MQXFA05 triplet quadrupole magnet…
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Advancements in MQXFA program and endurance test
In May 2022, the HL-LHC AUP project successfully completed an endurance test on an individual magnet (MQXFA05) in vertical position. This step, foreseen for the final cold mass assembly in horizontal position, was anticipated to this intermediate assembly stage to gather more information on the long term behavior of Nb3Sn magnets. The test involved completing…
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Overview of collaboration status and situation with Russian in-kind
The HL-LHC Project is entering the series construction phase and therefore most of the collaboration agreements are now focused on the production of final elements that will have their destination in the LHC tunnel and in the set of operational spares. The in-kind contributions account for about 10% of the total project cost, but at…