Mandate
- Responsible for the testing, qualification, and magnetic characterization of components, magnets and devices for the CERN accelerator complex and experimental areas; development and maintenance of online monitoring systems (B-trains) for the operation of the CERN LHC injector chain, AD and ELENA;
- Magnetic measurement and analysis of SC magnets for HL-LHC at various stages of production at CERN and at partner institutes; magnetic measurements of NC magnets for CERN’s accelerators; measurements in support of projects at partner institutes and of approved physics experiments at CERN;
- Operation, maintenance and upgrade of the SM18 cryogenic-test stations and of the laboratories for magnetic measurements (311 and 867); contribution to development and operation of test and measurement facilities at partner institutes;
- Development and maintenance of transducers, measurement systems, as well as novel data acquisition/processing and diagnostic techniques for various magnet types, configurations, and operation scenarios;
- Performance analysis of components and magnet systems installed in the CERN accelerator complex and experimental areas; coordination of development and maintenance of software for magnet design and analysis, and for data acquisition and storage at the SM18 test stations and measurement laboratories.
Safety
Maintaining a safe and healthy environment at work is a top priority for CERN and the TM Section. All the Safety files for our main Buildings/laboratories are available in EDMS in the following links: for Building 311, Building 867, and Building 2173 (SM18). Some additional Safety Information Documents are available here.
Useful Links
- TE department website: https://te-dep.web.cern.ch/
- MSC group website: https://te-msc-group-webpage.web.cern.ch/
- CERN Patrimony Web-site GS-Department ⇒ Planotheque with CERN-site dimensions, occupancy, etc.
- Normal Conducting Magnets database ⇒ All the information about the Normal Conducting Magnets.
- Documentation for FFMM ⇒ An introduction to the Flexible Framework for Magnetic Measurements, the MM Section's software used to carry out measurements.
Recommended Bibliography & Sources
You can have an introduction to the topic of Magnets and Magnetic Measurements for Accelerators using the following sources:
- CAS – CERN Accelerator School: Introduction to Accelerator Physics (Prague, 2014)
- CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Magnet Measurements (Montreux, 1992)
- CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Measurement and alignment of accelerator and detector magnets (Anacapri, 1997)
- CAS – CERN Accelerator School: Magnets (Bruges, 2009)
- CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Superconductivity and Cryogenics for Accelerators and Detectors (Erice, 2002)
- Magnetic Measurements for Particle Accelerators, International Master in Hadrontherapy (Pavia, 2013)
- Real-time magnetic field control and measurement, International Master in Hadrontherapy (Pavia, 2013)
- Magnetic Field Metrology, PhD Summer School Italo Gorini (Lecce, 2014)
- Tutorial session, International Magnetic Measurement Workshop IMMW19 (Taiwan, 2015)