cryomodule Archives

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

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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.

UK plays vital role in creating world’s most powerful neutrino beam

From the STFC, May 12, 2021: STFC and US-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have agreed to collaborate on building one of the world’s most powerful linear accelerators.

UK to play vital role in creating the world’s most powerful neutrino beam

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The Science and Technology Facilities Council, or STFC, has signed an agreement with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in the United States, designating how the two organizations will collaborate to build one of the world’s most powerful linear accelerators.

Overview of a cryomodule

On March 1, 2021, Fermilab employee Elias Lopez walks alongside the final cryomodule for the Linac Coherent Light Source II, or the LCLS-II, at the Cryomodule Test Facility. LCLS-II, people, cryomodule, accelerator technology, LCLS-II Photo: Ryan Postel

On March 1, 2021, Fermilab employee Elias Lopez walks alongside a cryomodule for LCLS-II at the Cryomodule Test Facility.