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A major milestone in the preparation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is the testing and operation of a 50-m long superconducting magnet string, representing a half-cell of the machine lattice. This also corresponds to the length of the elementary cooling loops providing refrigeration at the 1.9 K, 4.5-to-20 K, and 50-to-75 K levels to the LHC cryomagnets. Based on existing large-capacity cryogenic infrastructure, we have designed, built and are operating a dedicated cryogenic system feeding the LHC Test String, with installed capacities of 120 W @ 1.8 K and 10 g/s supercritical helium at 4.5 K. The system also includes 15 kA, 1.6 kA, 500 A, 250 A and 50 A current lead pairs for powering of main and auxiliary magnet circuits, as well as a 120 kW liquid nitrogen vaporizer for controlled cooldown of the 105 kg cold mass. The system is fully instrumented, controlled by dedicated industrial PLCs connected to an industrial supervision system. We report on performance in operation, including response of the system to transients such as current ramp and discharge, as well as magnet resistive transitions.
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Bézaguet, A. et al. (1996). The Superfluid Helium Cryogenic System for the LHC Test String: Design, Construction and First Operation. In: Kittel, P. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. A Cryogenic Engineering Conference Publication, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0373-2_100
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