6 COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS OCTOBER 2017 LHC PROTECTION SYSTEM to the energy stored in 1.5 tons of dynamite. In the unlikely event of an unprotected quench occurring at nominal energy, high-field accelerator magnets will very likely be severely damaged beyond the possibility of repair. The replacement of a faulty magnet would take up to several months, severely impacting machine availability, since no beam operation would be possible. Lorenzo Bortot, electrical engineer and research fellow at CERN, worked on the development of a 2D finite element, electrothermal rep - resentation for superconducting magnets. He develops time domain studies, suitable for assessing the performance of the newest techno- logical solutions for the automated quench response systems. » DETECTING THE Q

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