Category: Article
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Planing, coordination and configuration
Planing, coordination and configuration 19 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger The various entries of the last days have shown the large diversity of activities and responsibilities followed by our group. A detailed coordination and planning is key to ensure that all milestones can be reached. Challenging as such during an LS period, this years’ additional
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Cabling, Connectors and Qualification
Cabling, Connectors and Qualification 18 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Preparing for today’s Advent entry, I first made a fast scan through my email box and this years’ entries related to our cabling support activities, initially looking for the most representative examples to share with you. Given the large variety of work and diversity of
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Physics Beyond Colliders
Physics Beyond Colliders 17 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger 2020 was a special year for particle physics where after a preparation phase of almost four years the community refreshed the roadmap for the field in Europe, considering the worldwide context, in the so-called European Strategy for Particle Physics update, which happens every seven years. The
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Cleaning and dismantling
Cleaning and dismantling 16 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Based on LS1 experience and triggered by the various projects within our group, it was in 2018 during a group management retreat when we realized that many work packages and activities will require critical dismantling and cleaning tasks to be carried out in radioactive areas. Based
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Safety first
Safety first 15 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger COVID as particular safety aspect was and is with us, including all required protection measures taken seriously by all of you. We discussed related actions at various occasions, thoughtfully followed by CERN and all of you. From the very start of the initial lock-down, throughout all these
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Mechanical support and vacuum
Mechanical support and vacuum 14 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Yesterday we spoke about the collimators, focusing on the RL40 workshop. Today, let us have a closer look at the EHN1 workshop and the mechanical and vacuum support team, where everybody is very busy during LS2 and highly active in all our experimental areas working
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Collimators and the RL40 workshop
Collimators and the RL40 workshop 13 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Yesterday having looked at the surrounding shielding structures, today let us continue walking along the East and North Area beamlines where you come across several different beam elements: magnets, beam instrumentation, beam pipes, mechanical supports and regularly also collimators. The latter, not visible from
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Shielding activities
Shielding activities 12 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger When strolling through our experimental areas you certainly got used to the hundreds of shielding blocks, surrounding the experiments, delimiting the beamlines, and ensuring the required radiation protection. They tend coming (with few exceptions) in three ‘flavours’: concrete, iron and marble, and aim at optimizing the attenuation
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A few experiments
A few experiments 11 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Despite 2020 being a shut-down year, since several months now many experiments not only finalize their upgrade activities, but also start getting ready for 2021 operation. For the latter, recently we have set the target dates for when beams are coming back into the various experimental
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Integration and Design
Integration and Design 10 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Over the past days we spoke about many projects from consolidation to HL-LHC, all of which rely on an important group support activity – our integration and design team. Impossible putting all their 2020 work together in only one slide, today I would like to take