Speaker
Gerard Ferlin
Description
The LHC sectors are coupled two by two via interconnection boxes allowing cryoplant cooling redundancy and efficient stand-by or low-beam-intensity operation. The present LHC cryogenic sectorization allows to performed mechanical interventions on the magnet cold-mass circuit of a sector, like diode or interconnection splice repairs while the adjacent sector remain in nominal cryogenic operation. However this sectorization does not allow exchanging a magnet or a QRL service module in a sector while keeping the adjacent sector in nominal cryogenic operation and the cooling redundancy ability. This presentation will describe, based on different scenarios, hardware update proposals allowing a complete separation of the two adjacent sectors.
