LHC Beam Pipes at P6 straight
Photos of the LHC almost always show the large blue dipole magnets, which bend the beams around the curves at the corners of the ring (which is really more of a rounded octagon). So it was interesting to see what the beam pipes look like in a straight section, where there are no magnets. Those two pipes coming from the bottom right are the two main LHC beam pipes. These photos were all taken in the beam dump area at P6: the pipe above the two main beam pipes is one of the beam dump lines. The beam dump line starts out no wider than the normal beam pipes, as seen here. Later a "dilution kicker" magnet spreads it out in order to dissipate the beam energy over a wider area of the dump.
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LHC Beam Pipes at P6 straight
Photos of the LHC almost always show the large blue dipole magnets, which bend the beams around the curves at the corners of the ring (which is really more of a rounded octagon). So it was interesting to see what the beam pipes look like in a straight section, where there are no magnets. Those two pipes coming from the bottom right are the two main LHC beam pipes. These photos were all taken in the beam dump area at P6: the pipe above the two main beam pipes is one of the beam dump lines. The beam dump line starts out no wider than the normal beam pipes, as seen here. Later a "dilution kicker" magnet spreads it out in order to dissipate the beam energy over a wider area of the dump.
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