All change for Room C

Prominently placed in the Main Building, the Room C (61/1-009) meeting room is used for everything from strategic discussions to protocol visits. Now that the previous photo exhibition has run its course, a new display of photographs has been installed to highlight the positive societal impact of CERN technologies and their applications, alongside the expertise of the CERN community.

Photographs are displayed above and below a cable developed for the superconducting quadrupole magnets of the High-Luminosity LHC. The cable consists of numerous fragile niobium-tin (Nb₃Sn) filaments, each approximately 0.05 mm in diameter, embedded in a copper matrix. To prepare these cables for the accelerator magnets, they must be wound into coils and heated to about 650°C for several days in a complex process of reaction and diffusion.