Right on target!

On 4 March, when the production of superconducting cable was nearing the half-way point, a magic number appeared on the display board on the fourth floor of Building 30: only 1000 dipoles left to be produced! 232 of them had already been delivered to CERN.
This achievement coincided with the fourth Review of LHC Superconducting Cables and Magnet Production. The meeting was attended by independent international experts gathered to assess the production of the LHC magnets (see photo below). "The feasibility of our plan, which provides for the completion of magnet production by the summer of 2006, has been confirmed" underlined Lucio Rossi, Head of the Magnets and Superconductors Group (AT Department). During the last week of February, an unprecedented delivery rate of 10 dipoles per week was reached. Hats off to all those concerned!


The experts from the Review of LHC Superconducting Cables and Magnet Production, accompanied by the committee's secretary and the Head of the Magnets and Superconductors Group. From left to right: Ron Scanlan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US), Taka Shintomi (KEK Laboratory, Japan), Claudine Bosteels (Secretary of the commitee, AT-MAS Group, CERN), Lucio Rossi (Head of AT-MAS Group, CERN), Ettore Salpietro (EDFA-Iter project), Bruce Strauss (US Department of Energy, Chairman of the committee), and Pierre Védrine (CEA-DAPNIA-SACM, France).