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Louis Guerrero (1943 – 2023)

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Engineering
06 June, 2023
Engineering
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06 June, 2023

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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Engineering
25 April, 2023

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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Engineering
14 April, 2023

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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Engineering
07 December, 2022
Engineering
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07 December, 2022

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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Engineering
18 November, 2022
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18 November, 2022

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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Engineering
26 October, 2022
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26 October, 2022

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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Engineering
11 October, 2022

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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Engineering
21 December, 2021
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21 December, 2021

A 3D laser scanner is shaking up component inspection at CERN

A laser scanner acquired in 2020 by the EN department’s metrology laboratory produces high-resolution 3D modelling of a wide variety of components

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Engineering
14 July, 2021

Sparking breakthroughs in radiation protection for spacecraft, aviation and accelerators

The CERN-coordinated and EU-funded RADSAGA project is coming to an end after four years of rewarding research into radiation protection for electronics

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Engineering
08 June, 2021