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Lucio Rossi03/02/2009, 08:30The incident in 3-4 sector has affected some 50 main LHC magnets. Such a scenario was never considered as realistic in the past. Our reserve of magnet has been barely sufficient (some 40 dipoles and 14 SSS, in some cases the reserve magnet types are not compatible with the one damaged). Furthermore the subsequent measurements on other sectors have shown the necessity to replace other magnets....Go to contribution page
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Francesco Bertinelli03/02/2009, 09:10Reinstallation of the first magnets in the D-zone has already started in parallel with the removal of damaged magnets. It is planned for the last magnets to be reinstalled by end March. The start of interconnection (IC) work requires a minimum chain of adjacent magnets and their alignment: it is planned to start this in late February. IC work will now be performed by CERN and FSU staff, no...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vincent Baglin03/02/2009, 09:45During the incident of sector 3-4, the two beam vacuum sectors of 2.8 km each and four insulation vacuum sectors i.e. 750 m were vented to atmospheric pressure. Besides the mechanical damages of the nested bellows and plug-in-modules due to the mouvement of the cold masses under the helium pressure, soot and debris of superinsulation were spread inside the beam and insulation vacua. The...Go to contribution page
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Solfaroli Camillocci Matteo03/02/2009, 10:50After the incident occurred on the 19th September all equipment and systems (such as QPS racks, PC, BLM, Cryo instrumentation control etc.) located in the tunnel, especially in the incident affected area, were removed from the tunnel in order to allow an easy damage inspection. After a change or repair, during the re-installation phase, all these equipments will be put back in the tunnel and...Go to contribution page
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Doris Forkel-Wirth03/02/2009, 11:20Since 10th September 2008 a major part of the LHC installation is classified as Supervised Radiation Area. As soon as LHC operation will be resumed in 2009, beam losses will inevitably increase the activation of accelerator and detector components, the maintenance and repair teams of the accelerator and the detectors risk to be exposed to elevated radiation levels. To reduce dose to personnel...Go to contribution page
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