Tag: CMS beam pipe
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The installation of the beam pipe: a delicate surgical operation at the heart of the CMS experiment
Reaching another major milestone of the Long shutdown 2 and performing the biggest upgrade of the experimental beam vacuum system since the first operation of CMS in 2008. After several years of complex design, manufacture and planning, the CMS collaboration, in tight cooperation with experts of the CERN Technology Department-Vacuum, Surfaces, and Coating group, have…
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LHC beam pipe to be mined for monopoles
In February, the CMS and MoEDAL collaborations at CERN signed an agreement to hand over to MoEDAL a section of the LHC beam pipe that was located inside CMS between 2008 and 2013. The delicate object, 6 metres long and made of beryllium, will now be sliced and fed into a highly precise magnetic sensors…
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CMS beam pipe replacement has started
The CMS detector is built from several different layers, surrounding the beam pipe in which the LHC beams collide.