The first TCLD collimator produced in industry arrived at CERN on January 30th. This is the first of four dispersion suppressor collimators that will be installed around IP2 and IP7 to improve the collimation performance. This is one of the first HL-LHC devices to see the LHC beams: installed in LS2, the TCLD will already be operational for the Run III from 2021. Around IR7, two TCLD will be installed together with the 11 T dipoles that will replace one LHC dipole per side.

Excavation of the two new shafts for the HL-LHC at points 1 and 5 of the accelerator has been completed, CERN Bulletin. A montage of three photos showing an excavator in one of the two shafts that were dug for the High-Luminosity LHC (Images: © Antonino Panté, antoninopante.com. Reproduced with permission).

The WP8 team successfully extracted the JTT from the ATLAS detector on 11 January!

Tests carried out in 2018 on two crab cavities in the SPS validated their technical principle and many operating parameters, CERN Bulletin.

During a public visit, the HL-LHC collaborators saw the progress on the civil engineering works, where in that moment the excavations had reached 30 metres at Point 1 and 25 metres at Point 5, Accelerating News | Issue #27.

Mockups from Sigmaphi, Elytt and Antec. (Image: QUACO). Full details in Accelerating News | Issue #27

A 'loaded' start to the year for HiLumi. Before the JTT extraction next week in the ATLAS cavern, a WP8 team performs load tests (18.4 tons) in the SX1.

Unique magnets to supercharge the world's largest particle accelerator, European Commission website.

The beam screen for the High-Luminosity LHC will be installed by 2024 in the aperture of the inner triplet superconducting magnets near ATLAS and CMS, CERN Updates.

After having undergone several high intensity beam impacts at the HiRadMat facility in August, the TDIS HRMT-45 module was disassembled in November by the EN/STI-TCD and EN/SMM-MRO teams in the bunker 867-R-P58 for the post-irradiation analysis.