Five meter long FRP structure installed at CERN

摘要

German hybrid parts specialist Teufelberger has installed a lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic component for the particle accelerator at the CERN research center in Geneva, Switzerland. The lightweight component of carbon fiber reinforced plastic material (CFRP) is installed in the center of the ATLAS detector that has been built to, among other things, prove the existence of the Higgs boson. The component accommodates and carries the beam tube through which the particles fly, along with a specialized subdetector. The metal/CFRP structure was developed and produced by Teufelberger in cooperation with a German manufacturing partner.