Mastery of difficult technologies is in the DNA of high-energy physics and the accelerators that enable the science. For many decades ever increasing beam energies and intensities have given rise to not just spectacular science results but also to a well documented stream of technical innovations which have resulted in spin-offs in many non-related fields. […]
Take two for cryomodule 2
Fermilab reinstalls CM2, plans to be ready for cooldown in July
With the repair and reinstallation of the cryomodule known as CM2, researchers at Fermilab, US, are back on the road towards achieving the International Linear Collider’s R&D goal (named task force “S1”): operating a cryomodule at ILC gradient specifications. Originally installed in May 2012 as a part of the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) in […]
Fermilab’s Cryomodule 2 installation
Last week Fermilab’s Cryomodule 2 was transported to the laboratory’s NML building. Watch trucks, cranes and people move and install the ILC-type cryomodule in a time-lapse video.
Doing the cryomodule shuffle
Fermilab completes CM1 run, soon to install CM2
Fermilab researchers will soon take a quantum step towards the realisation of an ILC-type cryomodule. Next week the newly assembled cryomodule RFCA002, familiarly referred to as CM2, will replace CM1 in the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at the laboratory’s NML test facility. The change-out is a rung up on the R&D ladder, and not only […]
CM2 assembly nearly complete
Fermilab’s CM2, in the final stages of assembly, will come online in the spring.
Fermilab researchers and technicians are currently busy completing the final assembly of CM2, the first US cryomodule in which every one of its eight superconducting cavities meets ILC specifications. As such, it is the material realisation of years of beam testing, cavity manufacturing, and niobium processing. It’s also the first significant tangible step in establishing […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab begins operation of first SRF cryomodule
Editor’s note: Watch a video of the installation of the first SRF cryomodule at Fermilab. At particle physics laboratories around the world, people have closely followed a much anticipated cooldown at Fermilab. Years of effort by more than 100 staff members at Fermilab have led to the cooldown of Cryomodule 1 at the laboratory’s SRF […]