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First civil-engineering milestone passed for the High-Luminosity LHC

Excavation of the two new shafts for the HL-LHC at points 1 and 5 of the accelerator has been completed, 

A delicate maneuver

The WP8 team successfully extracted the JTT from the ATLAS detector on 11 January!

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The year of the crab

Tests carried out in 2018 on two crab cavities in the SPS validated their technical principle and many operating parameters, CERN Bulletin.

 

A new step for High-Luminosity LHC

During a public visit, the HL-LHC collaborators saw the progress on the civil engineering works, where in that moment the excavations had reached 30 metres at Point 1 and 25 metres at Point 5, Accelerating News | Issue #27.

QUACO Phase-3 starts now

Mockups from Sigmaphi, Elytt and Antec. (Image: QUACO). Full details in Accelerating News | Issue #27

Load test in SX1

A 'loaded' start to the year for HiLumi. Before the JTT extraction next week in the ATLAS cavern, a WP8 team performs load tests (18.4 tons) in the SX1.

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QUACO cited by the European Commission as a successful Horizon 2020 project

Unique magnets to supercharge the world's largest particle accelerator, European Commission website.

A brand-new beam screen to cope with high luminosity

The beam screen for the High-Luminosity LHC will be installed by 2024 in the aperture of the inner triplet superconducting magnets near ATLAS and CMS, CERN Updates.

Opening the HRMT-45 module by means of a robot

After having undergone several high intensity beam impacts at the HiRadMat facility in August, the TDIS HRMT-45 module was disassembled in November by the EN/STI-TCD and EN/SMM-MRO teams in the bunker 867-R-P58 for the post-irradiation analysis.