SY Department
Accelerator Systems Department
Health and Safety
Obligatory Personal Protection Equipment
Safety Information Registration
Document Management
EDMS folder of the section and group
IT General Grammar and Style Guidelines
Procurement
Quality and Planning
Accelerator Entities & Signals: Naming Portal
Departmental Space Manager assistant( works, repairs, removals)
Service requests
Software tools
INDICO
Section
| Equipment responsibility | Project development | Material R&D | Facilities Coordination | Other tasks |
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Equipment responsibility
The TCD section is responsible for all beam-intercepting devices in the CERN accelerator complex, including beam collimators, particle producing targets, beam dumps and absorbers, beam stoppers, passive masks, slits as well as scrapers. Get to know more about these in the Projects and Equipment‘s page.
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BID Project development
The section carries out conceptual studies, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of the mechanical systems and associated equipment, and collaborates in the integration of mechatronics systems needed for operation. The section teams organize and undertakes expert interventions in the beam facilities to carry out mechanical repairs or upgrades of its devices.
The section is responsible for thermo-mechanical studies of all beam-intercepting devices (BID) in the accelerator sector, including fixed targets, collimators and dumps/absorbers. It is also in charge of the conceptual design, R&D activities and operation of fixed target stations as well as of dump/shielding assemblies for the whole CERN accelerator complex.
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| LHC beam dump FEM calculation. | TCDIL Collimator design. |
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| Assembly of the BDF prototype target in the STI workshop. (Image: CERN) | Installation of a collimator in the LHC (Image: CERN) |
Material R&D
As an integral part of these activities, the section is constantly developing its expertise in the behaviour of materials under extreme working conditions as well as their behaviour after irradiation (long-term damage and single shot dynamical effects) to predict the evolution of the material response during operation. Research and development activities aiming at the improvement of design of cooling assemblies for beam intercepting devices is also executed in the TCD section.
Facilities Coordination
The section is in charge of the technical coordination and supervision of the n_TOF Facility as well as of the AD antiproton target area.
Other Tasks
The section is also in charge for the design, tests and operation of focusing magnetic horns for the CERN accelerator complex. Studies on the use of remote handling and manipulation and improving the design of beam intercepting devices including remote handling techniques are also carried out within the section.
Activities as part of a project
Many of the activities performed in the section are strongly linked between each other throughout the course of a project. People, software tools along with the mechanical workshops are essential during its development up until the project conclusion with success. It is therefore essential to have all of them excelling at their best.
The above scheme could even be related with a BID for a Facility coordinated by the section. This would therefore involve all the core activities in a single project!
Logo credits: Engine by ibrandify from the Noun Project ; design by monkik from the Noun Project ; Hexagonal Prism by Sam Martin from the Noun Project.