Magnet Acceptance and Allocation at the LHC Magnet Evaluation Board

The normal and superconducting magnets for the LHC ring have been carefully examined to insure that each of about 1900 assemblies is suitable for the operation in the accelerator. Hardware experts and accelerator physicists have contributed to this work that consisted in magnet acceptance, and sorting according to geometry, field quality and quench level. This paper gives a description of the magnet approval mechanism that has been running since four years, reporting in a concise summary the main results achieved

Cable Magnetization Effects in the LHC Main Dipole Magnets

Several short (1 m) and long (10 m) dipole models have been tested within the scope of the on-going R&D programme for LHC at CERN. We report here the results of measurements of field quality in these dipoles, focussing on the contribution of cable magnetization. We show that the results obtained over a significant (> 10) number of magnets at 1.8 and 4.2 K are in reasonable agreement with calculati ons of the dependence of allowed harmonics on field. The calculations are based on the Bean model of filament magnetization and assume an approximate Jc(B) dependence, calibrated against low field mea surements of strand magnetization. The field quality measurements at low field also correlate satisfactorily to measurements of cable critical current at high field and geometric filament diameter

An overview of xenarthran developmental studies with a focus on the development of the xenarthrous vertebrae

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High p<inf>T</inf> hadron production in photon-photon collisions

We have studied the properties of hadron production in photon-photon scattering with tagged photons at the e+e- storage ring PETRA. A tail in the pT distribution of particles consistent with pT-4 has been observed. We show that this tail cannot be due to the hadronic part of the photon. Selected events with high pT particles are found to be consistent with a two-jet structure as expected from a point-like coupling of the photons to quarks. The lowest-order cross section predicted for γγ → qq, σ = 3 Σ eq4 · σγγ → μμ, is approached from above by the data at large transverse momenta. © 1981