SL Division

CERN - SL Division - CT Group

Cavity Technology


LEP ENERGY UPGRADE

The group has been involved in the design and production of the 72 superconducting RF modules, each made of four 4-cell cavities.
Thanks to these cavities LEP has reached an energy of 100 GeV per beam in 1999.
 


Photos of the superconducting cavities. 

LEP2 Superconducting cavity diagram

LEP2 superconducting cavity prototype

Mounting the magnetron on a cavity for Niobium sputtering

LEP2 Superconducting cavity during Niobium sputtering

LEP2 Superconducting cavity in clean room

LEP2 Superconducting cavity in the tunnel

LEP2 Superconducting cavity in the tunnel (2)

Changing the antenna cables in the tunnel

Members of the LEP team in front of the final superconducting module to be installed


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Last modified 31/05/1999