Kicking off
Upgrades for the future operation of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) are under way in the whole accelerator complex. One of these upgrades is a new design to reduce the heating of some of the kicker magnets of the SPS to prepare them for future high-intensity beams. With their present design, these specific magnets would be heated to such an extent that they would temporarily lose their ability to bend the beam into the correct position. To avoid this, a special ceramic chamber that includes silver fingers has been installed. These fingers greatly reduce the electromagnetic interaction betwee...