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Dilution Kickers

Again, the main beam pipes are visible at the bottom. The larger set of chambers in the middle are the dilution kicker magnets, which spread the dumped beam out so that its energy is not concentrated on one piece of the dump. The large red cables are the power supply cables for the magnets, coming in from large (file cabinet sized) power converters sitting in a parallel tunnel. In this diagram ( lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/com... ), you can see the dilution kickers as MKBH and MKBV.

 

Tenuous link: pipes

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Uploaded on October 15, 2013
Taken on September 28, 2013