Dear Colleagues,
Another operational year is in full swing. Following a busy, very well executed YETS and recommissioning of the full accelerator complex, everything is now up and running impressively well – progress recently summarized in the Bulletin (already a fifth of the way there).
Recent highlights on the HL-LHC front include the successful completion of the full series of tests of the full-scale prototype superconducting link system. After a thermal cycle, all circuits have been successfully powered…