CERN Engineering News
Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced
— From brick-building to online flow analyses, ideas abound for sustainable reuse of excavated material from a tunnel for a potential future CERN facility thanks to the “Mining the Future” competition held as part of the FCC Innovation Study.
Guardians of the tunnel
— Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to inspect and document cracks in CERN’s tunnels in order to assess the risks for the machines inside them
A 3D laser scanner is shaking up component inspection at CERN
— A laser scanner acquired in 2020 by the EN department’s metrology laboratory produces high-resolution 3D modelling of a wide variety of components
Sparking breakthroughs in radiation protection for spacecraft, aviation and accelerators
— The CERN-coordinated and EU-funded RADSAGA project is coming to an end after four years of rewarding research into radiation protection for electronics
Mining the Future
— Join this international competition and submit your ideas for applications that could turn rock excavated during tunnelling for future CERN colliders into a resource
HL-LHC radiation protection robot passes first in-cavern test with flying colours
— 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
Additive manufacturing opens up new prospects at CERN
— Lightweight, robust, complex parts produced using additive manufacturing (3D printing) are proving their worth in the accelerators
The cabling of the LHC detectors moves up a gear thanks to the automation of testing
— The development of the “HiPotCT” system initiated by the cabling team of EN-EA-AS has considerably increased the speed of cabling activities in the LHC detectors
A new coating technique for deflecting crab cavities
— A team from the Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings group is studying a method of niobium coating by sputtering for use in future accelerators
Graphene’s potential to improve magnetic measurements for accelerators
— Collaboration between CERN and UK firm Paragraf could pave the way for more precise measurements of local magnetic fields