WP4 bees are in charge of the design, construction and commissioning of the new superconducting Radio Frequency (RF) crab cavities. But what are these crab cavities?

A novel RF system consisting of eight cavities per beam for transverse deflection (aka crab cavities) that will be used to compensate the geometrical angle of the bunches at ATLAS and CMS. The crab cavities will tilt the proton bunches of each beam in order to maximise their overlap when they meet at the heart of the two experiments and thus increase the likelihood of collisions.

These bees are working closely with bees from different countries such as UK, Canada, USA and Russia and with WP2 and WP15 bees.

WP4 Bees

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  Rama Calaga
  When Rama, a radiofrequency physicist working at CERN’s Beams Department, presses the rewind button, arrives in a childhood dream. “When… Read more: Rama Calaga
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  Nuria Valverde
  We could ask “ondas do mar de Vigo” when was the last time they saw our friend Nuria, a welding… Read more: Nuria Valverde

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