West-Midlands based Brandauer, a manufacturer of complex components had a small yet very significant part to play in the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.
A key feature of the actual particle accelerator, located underneath the Swiss and French Alps are the pumping slot shields. These form part of the beam screens inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. Brandauer produced the components that act as electron shields, which protect the machine’s 9,300 superconducting dipole magnets from electron cloud effects…
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