Robotic solution: successful preparation of the CMS rotating shielding for future HL-LHC vacuum module installation

By Florence Thompson (CERN)

Robot in operation. The rotating shielding (the large orange steel doors) will close around the green structure, which hosts the beam pipe during operation of the LHC. Florence Thompson / CERN

The CMS rotating shielding has now been successfully modified in-situ to prepare it to receive new vacuum modules for the HL-LHC, using a specifically designed method to deal with the space and radiation constraints of this complex manoeuvre.

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