Tag: NA
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North Experimental Area Cable Cleaning Campaign
North Experimental Area Cable Cleaning Campaign 11 DECEMBER, 2022 | By the NA-CONS team As part of the NA-Consolidation Project led by the BE-EA Group, a 5 week-long campaign took place at the end of this year’s shutdown to remove a huge number of obsolete cables from the Experimental Hall North 1 (EHN1) located at
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Vacuum in NA Experimental Areas & Beamlines
Vacuum in NA Experimental Areas & Beamlines 10 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Philippe Boisseaux-Bourgeois Le vide est d’une importance cruciale pour permettre l’exploitation des faisceaux pour la physique. Sur les 7 km de lignes, le vide est interconnecté avec un grand nombre d’autres éléments comme les collimateurs et encore les aimants. Durant les arrêts hebdomadaire,
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The NA-CONS integration
The NA-CONS integration 8 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Michael Lazzaroni Within the NA-CONS project, the integration work package (WP) is under the BE-EA responsibility. This work package provides complete integration studies including all related 3D and 2D layout/assemblies. The areas concerned are all the facilities in the North Area starting from TCC2, including all the
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Beam operation and challenges
Beam operation and challenges 6 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Ramon Folch 2022 was another exciting year for the beam operation of the experimental areas, with increasing challenges to satisfy our Users’ expectations, week after week. One key factor of successful operation is the fast and professional response to the unpredictable technical failures of the beamline
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Le vide au service des expériences NA et EA
Le vide au service des expériences NA et EA 22 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Philippe Boisseaux-Bourgeois and Giulia Romagnoli for the BE-EA vacuum team Maintenance et opération: L’année 2023 fut une année importante avec une multitude de configurations de lignes à réaliser durant les arrêts hebdomadaires, mais aussi dans le cadre d’optimisation de l’opérabilité du
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The SHADOWS muon flux measurement
The SHADOWS muon flux measurement 20 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Florian Stummer SHADOWS is a proposed future beam dump experiment that would aim to unravel dark matter, in particular feebly-interacting particles. As you might have guessed, these particles are called that, because they are expected to only interact very weakly with the matter that we
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Why the ESPP and P5 strategy process are important to us
Why the ESPP and P5 strategy process are important to us 14 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger and Roberto Losito Throughout the past century, institutions like ours have used experiments of increasing energy and precision to uncover how the universe works at the smallest scales. Their efforts have led to the Standard Model of
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An East & North Areas teaser
An East & North Areas teaser 5 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger Our accelerator complex is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies, each stage boosting the energy of a beam of particles before injecting it into the next machine in the sequence. For protons it starts with the Linac4.
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What experiment to run in ECN3 after LS3?
What experiment to run in ECN3 after LS3? 4 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Johannes Bernhard and Lau Gatignon In the context of the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) study, new ideas were solicited for experiments complementary to the ones at high-energy colliders. ECN3 is the only underground cavern in the North Area, where the highest intensities
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ECN3: Pushing Beam Intensities and ensuring a bright physics future
ECN3: Pushing Beam Intensities and ensuring a bright physics future 2 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger, Johannes Bernhard, Francisco SANCHEZ GALAN , and Yacine Kadi Last year CERN launched a taskforce with many of us involved to investigate a possible major intensity upgrade for the ECN3 cavern, currently housing the NA62 experiment, which searches