cryomodule Archives

How to put together an international physics experiment

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To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.

Fermilab completes the first-of-its-kind prototype of a superconducting accelerator module

A series of connected, silver, metal, cylindrical chambers

The 10-meter-long cryomodule, part of the PIP-II particle accelerator project at Fermilab, is now undergoing testing to validate all its components and finalize its design. In a few years, Fermilab and international partners will produce four similar cryomodules that will propel particles in the new linear accelerator.

10 ways Fermilab advanced science and technology in 2022

Scientists and engineers from around the world collaborate with Fermilab to develop state-of-the-art technologies and solve the mysteries of matter, energy, space and time. Here is a look at 10 ways they advanced science and technology this year.

PIP-II transportation test frame is ready for action

Successful assembly was the result of a collaboration among three institutions in three countries.

NIU students lend their engineering skills to PIP-II

Senior engineering students designed a portable cleanroom and a modular cryomodule mockup for Fermilab’s new accelerator complex upgrade project.

NIU senior design project

NIU engineering students (from left) Caeden Keith, Stefan Nyholm and Svilen Batchkarov pose with their project and professor Tariq Shamim at NIU’s Senior Design Day on May 6. The team built a full-scale (10m long) mockup of PIP-II’s HB650 cryomodule for use fit checking and preparing test stand and accelerator locations for the real cryomodule.

Flashback Friday

In August 2019, Anna Grassellino signs the last LCLS-II cryomodule going to SLAC.

Fermilab sees record performance from next-generation accelerator component

Accelerator experts at three national labs have advanced the next generation of cryomodules, the building blocks of particle accelerators. A prototype built for the high-energy upgrade of SLAC’s LCLS-II X-ray laser has advanced the state of the art, packing more acceleration into a smaller distance, and could dramatically improve future accelerators.

Successful tests pave the way for Fermilab’s next-generation particle accelerator

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This spring testing wrapped up at the PIP-II Injector Test Facility, or PIP2IT. The successful outcome paves the way for the construction of PIP-II, a new particle accelerator that will power record-breaking neutrino beams and drive a broad physics research program at Fermilab for the next 50 years.

HWR back to APS-TD after test in PIP2IT

A large gray cuboid that is tank-like in appearance sits on the trailer of a semi truck in a loading dock with the bay door open. A person is on the right of the truck. Two masked people wearing hard hats and physically distanced stand to the left of the truck as well.

After successfully accelerating beam in PIP2IT, the half-wave resonator cryomodule was transported back to APS-TD ICB, where it will be prepared for long-term storage before installation in PIP-II.