Category: Article
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What’s new for XCET 2021
What’s new for XCET 2021 9 DECEMBER,2021 | By Giulia Romagnoli and the XCET team The threshold Cherenkov Detectors (XCET) are used in the experimental areas at CERN since more than 40 years to count the number of selected particles in the beam. It is based on the detection of Cherenkov radiation emitted by a
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Circuit Coordination – Why care?
Circuit Coordination – Why care? 8 DECEMBER,2021 | By Ramon Folch and Michael Jeckel Maximizing the beam operation performance is our main objective. Reliable systems and experienced operators are essential, but not always sufficient. It is also important to limit the perturbations caused by unexpected power cuts. The Experimental Areas are especially subject to such
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Antiproton Décélérateur
Antiproton Décélérateur 7 DECEMBER, 2022 | By François Butin and the AD team Une année 2021 riche en émotion sur l’AD, en effet nous travaillons sur ce projet depuis 2012 et ELENA a pu enfin servir des antiprotons bien ralentis et bien refroidis aux expériences « historiques » de « l’usine à antimatière ». Les
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Software Migration
Software Migration 6 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Alexander Gerbershagen & Software Migration team A migration of the complete chain of software simulating the Experimental Areas beamlines has been performed. In that process, we analysed the EA activities (displayed in the below figure) and made sure that the optimal software is used for each stage of
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HiRadMat Overview 2021
HiRadMat Overview 2021 5 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Pascal Simon and the HiRadMat team 2021 was a very exciting and very busy year for HiRadMat, with 6 experiments in 3 beam-time slots, 9 external users coming from 5 different institutes. The team works hardly to deliver pre-LS2 beam performances, and we survived to a minefield
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Gas Renovation
Gas Renovation 4 DECEMBER, 2021 | By David Jaillet and the Gas team 2021 was an intense year covering operation, maintenance, consolidation, and supply activities. Thanks to a collaborative effort across departments, and together with our contract and industrial support colleagues, this essential technical support covered in 2021 already several thousands of gas supply and
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Completion of the East Area renovation
Completion of the East Area renovation 3 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Sebastien Evrard and the East Area Renovation team CERN’s East Area has hosted a variety of fixed-target experiments since the 1950s, using four beamlines from the Proton Synchrotron (PS). Over the past 4 years, the experimental area – CERN’s second largest – has undergone
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Preparing ATLAS for High Luminosity LHC
Preparing ATLAS for High Luminosity LHC 2 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Francisco Sachez-Galan and the WP8 team 2021 was an exciting year for HL-LHC WP8, we started the year successfully completing the Engineering Design Review of the TAXN, the Neutral absorber that will surround the Y-chamber both at P1 and P5 to protect the superconducting
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CEDAR Upgrade: from 1975 to EYETS 2022
CEDAR Upgrade: from 1975 to EYETS 2022 1 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Antonio Lafuente The CEDAR’s (Cerenkov Differential counter with Achromatic Ring Focus) were designed at CERN between 1975 and 1980 and use a highly performant optical system to identify a particle by detecting only the Cerenkov light emitted at a precise angle by particles
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Consolidating the Micro-collimator
Consolidating the Micro-collimator 22 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Antonio Alonso The XCRHV micro-collimator was built around 40 years ago and it is currently installed in H8 beamline. Used in the "micro beam" mode, it allows for either small beam divergences or very small beam spot sizes, depending on the location of the collimator in the