Cryogenic Distribution Boxes

Large Hadron Collider distribution box under construction

This Meyer Tool & Manufacturing, Inc. vacuum vessel is one of eight cryogenic distribution boxes incorporated into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.  The distribution boxes connect the LHC's superconducting magnets with the systems that keep the magnets operating at temperatures near absolute zero.  The distribution boxes supply cryogens in the form of liquid and gaseous helium, and deliver power to the magnets.

In a unique partnership among two national labs and a small local business, Fermilab, Berkeley Lab and Meyer Tool started working on the distribution boxes in April 2003.  Meyer Tool shipped the first two distribution boxes to CERN in January 2005, the remaining boxes were shipped in September 2005.

Read more about Meyer Tool's cryogenic distribution boxes for the Large Hadron Collider.

A cryogenic distribution box built by Meyer Tool for the LHC. Meyer constructed eight of these boxes for the project to hold all the cryogenics, electrical power and signals for the CERN magnets.

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