Tag: AD
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The year in Outreach activities
The year in Outreach activities 01 DECEMBER, 2024 | By Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny As I revisited the advent calendars from past years, almost every story sparked my interest. One story particularly caught my attention: the FORMOSA demonstrator, which came to life thanks to a spontaneous cabling campaign – a perfect example of teamwork and dedication. This
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BASE Collaboration transports protons for the first time
BASE Collaboration transports protons for the first time Today, the BASE Collaboration achieved a major milestone: This morning, they successfully moved their transportable trap BASE-STEP, loaded with protons, inside the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) hall for the first time – a proof of principle that paves the way for future groundbreaking antiproton precision measurements. After everything
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A year full of excitement
A year full of excitement The Experimental Areas (EA) group of CERN’s Beam department gathered on 19 January to hear about the plethora of works carried out during the last year. It was clear that the services provided by the members of each section are essential to run the fixed-target experiments conducted at CERN, including
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Outreach Stories
Outreach Stories 23 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Closing in on Christmas eve, I went back to a number of outreach articles you contributed to throughout the year, either as co-author or through your work around CERN’s experimental areas and experiments. Physics moves forward in present installations, upcoming operation and future projects, many possible thanks
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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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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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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