Tag: LHC beam pipe vacuum system
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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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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.