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Cryogenics and superconductivity for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Cryogénie et supraconductivité pour le grand collisionneur de hadrons du Cern.

Author(s) : LEBRUN P.

Type of article: Article, Case study

Summary

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), presently in construction at CERN, will be the most advanced research instrument of the world's high-energy physics community, providing access to the structure of matter at an unprecedentedly fine scale. Reusing the 26.7 km circumference tunnel and infrastructure of the past LEP electron-positron collider, the LHC makes use of advanced technology: high-field superconducting magnets based on niobium-titanium alloy conductors operating in superfluid helium at 1.9 K will guide and bring into collision intense beams of protons and ions.

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  • Original title: Cryogénie et supraconductivité pour le grand collisionneur de hadrons du Cern.
  • Record ID : 2005-1107
  • Languages: French
  • Source: Rev. gén. Froid - vol. 95 - n. 1050
  • Publication date: 2005/01

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