Production and quality assurance of main busbar interconnection splices during the LHC 2008-2009 shutdown

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 2, 2011, Pages 1786-1790

  Bertinelli, F ^a   Bottura, L ^a   Dalin, J M ^a   Fessia, P ^a   Flora, R H ^b   Heck, S ^a   Pfeffer, H ^b   Prin, H ^a   Scheuerlein, C ^a   Thonet, P ^a   Tock, J P ^a   Williams, L ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Busbars; Interconnections; Resistance measurement; Superconducting cables

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; CONDUCTING STATE; CRITICAL AREA; ELECTRICAL CONTINUITY; HEATING CYCLES; INTERCONNECTIONS; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ROOM TEMPERATURE RESISTANCE; ULTRASONIC TEST; VISUAL INSPECTION; VISUALIZATION OF VOIDS;

BUSBARS; CABLES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASONIC TESTING; VISUALIZATION;

SOLDERING;

EID: 79957913174     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2085072     Document Type: Article

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