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Superconducting dipole magnets arrive on time for installation in LHC

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The anticipated 1,232 superconducting dipole magnets arrived on time for installation in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this fall. The LHC dipoles were produced by three industry providers: the French Alstom MSA-Jeumont Areva consortium, the Italian company AS-G (previously Ansaldo Superconducttori Genova) and the German firm Babcock Noell (previously BNN).