Tag: Annual Meeting
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Transition to deployment phase approaching: update on project status
Impressive progress has been made across the entire collaboration, with production progress vital as we continue to progress towards deployment in the LHC tunnel. The upcoming Collaboration Meeting will be an exciting time to meet just after the start of deinstallation of the machine, to reflect on what we have achieved so far and what…
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Planning of the 2024 Annual Meeting and Cost & Schedule Review
Our annual HiLumi Cost & Schedule Review (CSR) will take place between the 11th and 14th November. After another lively procurement year, where commitments are expected to reach 74% of the budget at completion by the end of the year, we need to consolidate the status of the full project for what might be the…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status
The project reached several key milestones since the last Newsletter. Among the many achievements I would like to highlight here the celebration for the completion of all Civil Engineering work in January at CERN. The new underground structures have been completed by the end of 2022 and the new surface buildings at P1 and P5…
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Overview of collaboration status
The HL-LHC collaboration office continues to update existing and put in place new agreements. Since the beginning of 2023 we have been busy updating UK Phase 1 agreements allowing for the final invoicing to take place. Many of the planned deliverables were delayed during COVID so several dates for the expected invoices and a few…
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Planning of annual meeting and CSR’22, including summary of CSR’21 outcome
Following a very successful exercise in 2021, CERNs Council has requested the Cost & schedule reviews of the HL-LHC project to be held annually, a lighter edition alternating every second year with a full project review. The 2022 – a light – edition has been scheduled for the 14th – 15th November. The CSR’21, first…
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BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN
The 8th Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) Collaboration Meeting was held at CERN in early April. The two-day meeting, organized by WP13 in collaboration with Cockcroft Institute (CI) and GSI, brought together senior scientists and the collaboration members from these institutions, including a number of young researchers. It also coincided with the presence of the CI…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 6
Progress since the last collaboration meeting in October 2021 has been impressive and the project passed several key milestones for the project implementation despite the turbulences caused by COVID-19 and the crisis in Ukraine. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the successful endurance test validation of the MQXFA05 triplet quadrupole magnet…
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Planning of the 2021 Annual Meeting
Due to the COVID-19 restrictions last year, the 2020 annual meeting initially planned to take place in Uppsala had to be postponed and instead the 10th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting was held in virtual form and limited to plenary sessions. While some uncertainty remains, we are more optimistic this year. We are therefore pleased to announce…
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Update on Collaboration agreements and report from the Collaboration Board at the last Annual Meeting
The still unresolved COVID-19 pandemic, which defined the year 2020, has unsurprisingly had an impact on our collaborations. However, the impact appears to be contained to a few months, with delays that can be reabsorbed and are also partially mitigated by the decision taken after the 2019 C&SR to delay the start of LS3 by…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 5
The progress since the last collaboration meeting in October 2020 has been truly remarkable and the project successfully passed several key milestones for the project implementation in spite of the COVID-19 restrictions. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the successful validation of two pre-series MQXFA triplet quadrupole magnets by our US…