Tag: WP1 Project Management
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Overview of Collaboration Status 2024
The HL-LHC Collaboration Office continues to update existing collaboration agreements and put in place new agreements with HL-LHC partners. Since the previous HL-LHC Collaboration Board Newsletter, the Collaboration Office has focused on the signing of the UK Phase 1 agreements, allowing for final invoicing to take place. The main deliverable expected for the UK Phase…
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LHC operational status
Figure 1: Photograph of the dispersion suppressor collimator (TCLD) installed in the dispersion suppressor region around ALICE. A standard 15m-long connection cryostat is replaced by two shorter connection cryostats and a bypass module that enables installation of a warm collimator. Since the restart of the LHC for its third operational run in 2022 (Run 3),…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status
The project has reached several key milestones since the last newsletter. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the celebrations for the successful validation of the CERN MQXFB quadrupole improvement plan and the successful validation of the first two magnets destined for direct installation in the tunnel (MQXFB03 and MQXFB04), the delivery…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status
The project reached several key milestones since the last Newsletter. Among the many achievements I would like to highlight here the celebration for the completion of all Civil Engineering work in January at CERN. The new underground structures have been completed by the end of 2022 and the new surface buildings at P1 and P5…
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Planning of the CSR’23
The now annual Cost & Schedule review 2023 will take place between the 13th and the 17th of November. As requested by the ATS management, this will be an extended edition, alternating with the ‘light’ version held in 2022. This year, most work-packages will be asked to present their budget, schedule, and changes therein, as…
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Overview of collaboration status
The HL-LHC collaboration office continues to update existing and put in place new agreements. Since the beginning of 2023 we have been busy updating UK Phase 1 agreements allowing for the final invoicing to take place. Many of the planned deliverables were delayed during COVID so several dates for the expected invoices and a few…
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Planning of annual meeting and CSR’22, including summary of CSR’21 outcome
Following a very successful exercise in 2021, CERNs Council has requested the Cost & schedule reviews of the HL-LHC project to be held annually, a lighter edition alternating every second year with a full project review. The 2022 – a light – edition has been scheduled for the 14th – 15th November. The CSR’21, first…
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HL-LHC procurement and current market situation
The High-Luminosity Project is finalising the transition from the prototyping phase into full construction mode and most of the activities in view of the series production for the HL-LHC hardware have already started across all work-packages. Procurement is closely following the baseline schedule of the project and is running in parallel to the project milestones.…
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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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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…