Description
To guide and focus its rigid high-energy beams along the 26.7 km circumference underground tunnel housing the machine, the LHC uses several thousand high-field superconducting magnets, operating in superfluid helium at 1.9 K. The design and construction of the accelerator posed many technological challenges: all components and systems had to be developed beyond the pre-existing state-of-the-art, industrialised, and produced in large series at competitive prices. Initiated by the twenty European member states of CERN, the LHC has also become a global project, with special contributions from Canada, India, Japan, Russia and the United States of America.
Speaker
Philippe Lebrun
(CERN Accelerator Technology Department Head)
