Date		Description
December 2008		ISA awarded money to build ASTRID2
2009
January 2009		Design of ASTRID2 started
August 2009		Preliminary design report for the ASTRID2 ring sent out for review.
7th September 2009		Fast magnets with power supplies for ASTRID2 ordered
7th September 2009		Girders with magnets for ASTRID2 ordered
2010
January 2010		Multi Pole Wiggler (MPW) for ASTRID2 ordered
February 2010		Order of main power supplies for ASTRID2
2th December 2010		Extraction kicker for ASTRID received
6th December 2010		Main dipole chambers for ASTRID2 ordered
8th December 2010		Ion pumps for ASTRID2 ordered
2011
January 2011		The ASTRID2 ring hall is empty and construction on the podium has started
7th January 2011		Gate valves for ASTRID2 ordered
February 2011		Utilities required for the ring are being installed.
18th February 2011		The ion pumps for the ring were delivered
24th February 2011		Gate valves for the ring were delivered.
23rd March 2011		Supports for the magnet girders were put in place.
April/May 2011		The magnets for the transfer beam line were installed
20th June 2011		The multipole wiggler was delivered
28th June 2011		The first extracted beam from ASTRID
28th June 2011		First two girders for ASTRID2 delivered today
29th June 2011		The first girder for the ring has been installed. Girder 2 has been placed on its supports in arc 5 of the ring.
6th July 2011		First extraction of beam with ASTRID running in booster mode (22 second cycle time)
20th July 2011		The last four girders for the ring have been installed.
21st July 2011		First section of the transfer beamline under vacuum, in preparation for further extraction diagnostics.
26th August 2011		Installation of the power cables for the dipole and quadrupole magnets commenced.
20th September 2011		The concrete blocks which will be used to build the radiation shielding are being placed in the basement.
21st October 2011		First vacuum! Section 1 of ASTRID2 is now under vacuum.
2nd November 2011		Section 1 of ASTRID2 is now being baked.
6th February 2012		Half of the ASTRID2 ring is now under vacuum and has been baked. Section 2 bakeout was completed today, section 3 baking will start this week.

Current Status as of Monday 6th February 2012: Half of the ring is now under vacuum and has been baked.

By clicking on one of the icons below you can view a video showing the construction progress of the ring. Last updated: 31st December 2012. The film show the progress of the building of Astrid2 throughout 2011. The files are quite large and the film is about 9 min 30 secs. long.

.avi (mpeg4) file, 26Mb	.mov file, 26Mb Quick time	.wmv file, 28Mb Windows Media Player

Below you will find a selection of photographs showing the construction progress in the ASTRID2 hall. Click on a thumbnail to view the picture in a larger version

December 2010	3rd Janaury 2011	12th January 2011	4th February 2011
23rd March 2011	April/May 2011	20th June 2011	28th June 2011
28th June 2011	29th June 2011	20th July 2011

 

 

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Last Modified 06 February 2012