7–11 Jul 2014
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Conceptual design of the cryogenic system for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

8 Jul 2014, 17:00
15m
WA1

WA1

Oral presentation (15min) C-01: Large scale refrigeration, liquefaction Tue-Af-Orals Session 4

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Mr Laurent Jean Tavian (CERN)

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The discovery in 2012 of a Higgs boson at CERN is the start of a major program of work to measure this particle’s properties with the highest possible precision for testing the validity of the Standard Model and to search for further new physics at the energy frontier. The LHC is in a unique position to pursue this program. Europe’s top priority is the exploitation of the full potential of the LHC, including the high-luminosity upgrade of the machine and detectors with an objective to collect ten times more data than in the initial design, by around 2030. To reach this objective, the LHC cryogenic system must be upgraded to withstand higher beam current and higher luminosity at top energy while keeping the same operation availability by improving the collimation system and the protection of electronics sensitive to radiation. This paper will present the conceptual design of the cryogenic system upgrade with recent updates in performance requirements, the corresponding layout and architecture of the system as well as the main technical challenges which have to be met in the coming years.

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