CEC-ICMC 2015 - Timetable, Abstracts and Presentations

Session

C2PoQ - Safety, Reliability, and Standards

C2PoQ

30 Jun 2015, 14:00

JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort

Conveners

C2PoQ - Safety, Reliability, and Standards

• Maciej Chorowski (Wroclaw University of Technology)
• Adam Swanger (NASA Kennedy Space Center)

143. Final Report on the Controlled Cold Helium Spill Test in the LHC Tunnel at CERN

Mrs Laetitia Dufay-Chanat (CERN)

30/06/2015, 14:00

CEC-11 - Safety, Reliability, and Standards

Poster Presentation

The 27-km circumference LHC underground tunnel is a confined space in which the helium-cooled LHC magnets are installed. The vacuum enclosures of the superconducting magnets are protected by over-pressure safety relief devices that open whenever cold helium escapes either from the magnet cold enclosure or from the helium supply headers, into this vacuum enclosure. A 3-m long no stay zone...