CERN Engineering News
CERN Engineering News
— The CERN CRANEbot successfully handled a vacuum module in the CMS cavern without the need for human intervention in a decisive test for the HL-LHC project
— Lightweight, robust, complex parts produced using additive manufacturing (3D printing) are proving their worth in the accelerators
— Jacques Séguinot, a great detector physicist and a founding father of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov technique, passed away on 12 October 2020
— The development of the “HiPotCT” system, as part of a collaboration between the EN-SMM-MTA and the EN-EA groups, has considerably increased the speed of cabling activities in the LHC detectors
— A team from the Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings group is studying a method of niobium coating by sputtering for use in future accelerators
— Collaboration between CERN and UK firm Paragraf could pave the way for more precise measurements of local magnetic fields
— Parts of the infrastructure in the vast North Area, which is supplied by the Super Proton Synchrotron, are being renovated
— In 2019, five CERN technical apprentices were awarded their "certificat fédéral de capacité" (CFC)