Category: Engineering

  • Louis Guerrero (1943 – 2023)

    Louis Guerrero(1943 – 2023) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/engineering/louis-guerrero-1943-2023) Louis, known as “Loulou”, arrived at CERN in 1970. He began his engineering career at the PS Booster under the leadership of Helmut Reich and Gianni Gelato, then later moved to the SPS to join Raymond Rausch’s team, where he worked on

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  • The Technical Galleries Consolidation Project is progressing well

    The Technical Galleries Consolidation Project is progressing well

    5 km of technical galleries have been scanned and half of them 3D-modelled, and the work to renovate and replace their technical infrastructure is in full swing

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  • From CERN to Jupiter: Juice embarks on its historic journey

    From CERN to Jupiter: Juice embarks on its historic journey

    Before embarking on its journey, critical components of ESA’s interplanetary mission were tested in the only facility on Earth capable of replicating Jupiter’s harsh radiative environment

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  • The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era

    The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era

    SM18 is one of the largest magnet test facilities in the world. Dedicated to testing superconducting magnets and radiofrequency cavities, it is now waiting for the first HL-LHC components

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  • First 3D printing of crucial component to bring accelerators closer to society

    First 3D printing of crucial component to bring accelerators closer to society

    The first additive manufacturing of a critical accelerator component paves the way for more affordable and versatile particle accelerators.

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  • A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders

    A remedy against electron clouds inside particle colliders

    An LHC quadrupole whose beam screen had been coated with a fine layer of carbon displayed minimal heat load in comparison to other magnets, constituting a promising step in eliminating electron clouds in future particle accelerators

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  • Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced

    Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced

    From brick-building to online flow analyses, ideas abound for sustainable reuse of excavated material from a tunnel for a potential future CERN facility thanks to the “Mining the Future” competition held as part of the FCC Innovation Study.

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  • Guardians of the tunnel

    Guardians of the tunnel

    Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to inspect and document cracks in CERN’s tunnels in order to assess the risks for the machines inside them

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  • Addressing energy challenges together

    The Energy for Sustainable Science at Research Infrastructures workshops have led to the adoption of environmentally friendly solutions for energy management

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  • World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

    World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

    CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC

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