UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade

12 February, 2024

Technicians Luke Bladen and Tom Hanley from the STFC Technology Department who supported the build of the cryomodule. (Image credit: STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

By Andrew Blackett-May (STFC-ASTeC/Cockcroft Institute), Niklas Templeton (STFC-TD), Graeme Burt (Lancaster University/Cockcroft Institute) & Rama Calaga (CERN) - The first pre-series cryomodule equipped with superconducting Radio Frequency Dipole (RFD) crab cavities was completed in October 2023 at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s Daresbury Laboratory as a collaboration between HL-LHC-UK and CERN, Accelerating News.

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UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade

UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade

UK delivers first state-of-the-art cryomodule to CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade