Tag: Magnet

  • Pay attention: CMS magnet powered ON!

    Pay attention: CMS magnet powered ON!

    Running toward the start of Run3 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS experiment completed one of its last and crucial steps: the big solenoid magnet has been powered on to reach the nominal magnetic field of 3.8T on March 4th 2022. Hidden inside the CMS detector, the solenoid magnet looks like a cylinder…

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  • CMS magnet warm up

    CMS magnet warm up

    The CMS magnet, one of the largest superconducting magnets in the world, with the largest stored energy, has been warmed up in April-May 2020 in order to perform an intervention on the vacuum pumping system.

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  • Magnet stops in August 2012: CMS internal report

    The magnet worked properly until it suffered two unexpected stops in August due to technical problems on the service infrastructure.

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  • Highlights from the annual maintenance of the CMS detector

    Highlights from the annual maintenance of the CMS detector

    The Year-End Technical Stop or YETS, when the LHC takes its annual break, seemed like a quiet time to those outside CERN.

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