Test Station for a 30 m long Superconducting Link

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) requires distribution of high electrical currents in the limited space of LHC tunnel. Four superconducting links of about 76 m length and one of 510 m will be installed in the tunnel to carry 6 kA and 600 A. For validation of the longest link a test station was designed which is presently under construction. The design will permit the test station to be adapted for other links and/or cables as well. It will operate either in pool boiling mode, in order to measure thermal loads, or in forced super-critical helium flow mode to simulate real operation. Inlet pressure is 1.2 bar to 3 bar. Inlet temperature is adjustable from 4.4 K up to about 20 K. The station is being prepared to validate the LHC model link, consisting of 48 superconducting cables, each operating at 600 A between 4.5 K and 5.4 K. This article describes features of the equipment

Apprentissage de la conception de circuits intégrés : une introduction par la technologie à l’aide d’un logiciel de TCAD

Nous présentons le développement d’un stage de CAO (Conception Assistée par Ordinateur) pour des étudiants de niveau bac+5 découvrant le domaine de la microélectronique. Le but de ce stage est de délivrer dans un laps de temps relativement court (2 jours) les notions importantes sur la conception d’un circuit intégré en technologie CMOS. Pour cela, le travail se base sur une découverte du procédé CMOS par la TCAD (Technology Computer Aided Design) permettant d’introduire le procédé de fabrication d’un MOSFET et de relier ses grandes étapes à la logique de dessin par couche lors de la conception du transistor (layout)

Vulnerability of optical detection systems to megajoule class laser radiative environment

International audienceThe Laser MegaJoule (LMJ) facility will host inertial confinement fusion experiments in order to achieve ignition by imploding a Deuterium-Tritium filled microballoon [1]. In this context an X-ray imaging system is necessary to diagnose the core size and the shape of the target in the 10-100 keV band. Such a diagnostic will be composed of two parts: an X-ray optical system and a detection assembly. The survivability of each element of this diagnostic has to be ensured within the mixed pulse consisting of X-rays, gamma rays and 14 MeV neutrons created by fusion reactions. The design of this diagnostic will take into account optics and detectors vulnerability to neutron yield of at least 1016. In this work, we will present the main results of our vulnerability studies and of our hardening-by-system and hardening-by- design studies