Tag: Beam dump
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Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?
Got any blocks of cast iron lying around in a corner of your office? They might be useful for the future Beam Dump Facility (BDF) for the SPS
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Accelerator Report: The excellent 2024 LHC run ended abruptly
The LHC was scheduled to conclude its outstanding 2024 run on 25 November, but a massive magnet quench brought it to an end two days early
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New beam dumps: cut along the dotted line
Dismantling a beam dump is a real conundrum – that’s what the 2020 “autopsy” concluded. To solve it, the new spare LHC beam dumps have been made easier to “cut”
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Accelerator Report: Ending the 2023 run with a quench
Another few days and the last 2023 LHC beams will be dumped, hopefully by the machine protection system following a controlled magnet quench
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Accelerator Report: A quench of an LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences
On Monday, 17 July, the LHC beams were dumped after only 9 minutes in collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation
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Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance
The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring
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Autopsy of an LHC beam dump
For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams
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What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?
A new experiment has been performed at the HiRadMat facility to test various materials that could be used in the LHC and HL-LHC beam dumps
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The SPS beam dump
On 7 March, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. In this article, we reflect on the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump
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LS2 Report: The High-Luminosity LHC is ready for injection
A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC