Re:Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak wi...
by ThePhysicist on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:39AM
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Basically 2-3 years of getting everything to work and testing each component, than 2-4 weeks of good measurements that comprise the main results of the PhD thesis.
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Re:Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak wi...
by techdragon on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:38PM
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Shame they don’t give you any extra certification or recognition for more than two years of learning about the care and maintenance of cryogenic high vacuum systems… that’s a whole persons job in some places!
I’m not looking forward to thermal vacuum testing for my robots… because I don’t think there’s a big enough chamber in Australia… option one is (assuming funding) building a thermal vacuum chamber that can get down to GEO level vacuum with all the fun a large volume vacuum system entails… option two is shipping the entire thing to a friendly country with larger chambers (ESA in EU or NASA in the USA) but then there’s the space technology export paperwork … and I don’t know which would be worse.