Category: highlights
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Radio Freqency Components
Overview The RF Dipole (RFD) crab cavity, developed for the HL-LHC, tilts the particle bunches to maximise head-on collisions at the interaction points. Each cavity is built from high-purity niobium through precision forming, electron beam welding and vacuum brazing, ensuring exceptional geometric accuracy and superconducting performance. Forming All niobium parts of the RFD crab cavity…
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Magnet Welding Support
Overview As part of the HL-LHC upgrade, new cryo-assemblies are being produced at the SMI2 workshop for the inner triplet magnets of IR1 and IR5. Each assembly consists of a Phase 1 cryostat—the vacuum vessel, thermal shields, and cold-mass supports—and a Phase 2 service module, which provides the external interfaces needed for installation in the…
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Additive Manufacturing
How Powder Bed Fusion Works Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a metal additive manufacturing process where a Laser selectively melts fine layers of metal powder to build a part directly from a digital model. The technique enables lightweight, complex, and high-performance components with minimal material waste—ideal for accelerator applications requiring precision, vacuum compatibility, and integrated…