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CHARM facility: successful operation restarting
At the end of the T8 line in the EAST Area, a one-of-a-kind test facility can be found. It is called CHARM, a radiation test facility dedicated to testing of electronics and systems in well characterized mixed radiation fields. The facility can replicate a wide number of radiation environments of an accelerator complex, for example
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The HiRadMat MULTIMAT 2 test stand
In the end of September 2021 the HiRadMat experiment 57 took place. After meticulous planning and preparation, the MULTIMAT 2 experiment was installed in HiRadMat (High Irradiation to Materials), and now it is ready for an intense week of material testing. Thanks to the efforts of BE-CEM, SY-STI and EN-MME, both the test and data
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Co60 source successfully upgraded
Last week the BE-CEM-EPR team successfully installed a new Co60 source in the CC60 facility at CERN. The installation was meticulously planned and executed with the orchestration of activities between two external companies, Radioprotection (DG-RP) and Transport (EN-HE) teams. The CC60 facility hosted already a source with an initial activity of 10TBq (in 2014, now
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FMC Profinet
Real-time control of custom electronics from industrial PLCs There are two main categories of generic accelerator control hardware solutions available for the CERN community: Each category has its defined use-cases and relies on well-standardized, real-time communication protocols, e.g. Profinet for industrial controls, and White Rabbit and WorldFIP for custom electronics. However, until today, there was
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LHC BLM sensors automatic validation
The Beam Loss Monitor (BLM) test campaign in the LHC with the new robotic wagon of the Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) started successfully at the beginning of July. This new wagon has been developed ad hoc to perform, autonomously, the validation of most of the 4000 BLM in the LHC tunnel, saving time and dose