The ALS-U project is an upgrade to the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that aims to deliver diffraction-limited x-ray beams with an increased beam brightness of two orders of magnitude for soft x-rays compared to the current ALS facility. A nine-bend achromat lattice Storage Ring (SR) and a three-bend achromat Accumulator Ring (AR) will be installed in the facility in two phases. The AR is currently being installed in the ALS facility during its regularly planned shutdowns while the SR upgrade will follow during a 12 months shutdown. AR rafts and dipoles are being installed with ground based tooling and overhead crane lifting methods. This paper focuses on the AR installation. In particular we will describe the engineering design, prototyping and testing of the customized ground based installation tooling, which led to a successful installation of the first AR production rafts and dipoles in the ALS tunnel.

The cabling facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has experienced a heavy increase in workload during the US-HiLumi Accelerator Upgrade Project (AUP). Several critical components have experienced unexpected failure over the project’s lifetime for reasons at least partly attributable due to increased wear and tear on the hardware subsystems. This work presents three case studies of varying severity and lessons learned from each failure. Suggested strategies to ensure operational readiness and uptime for legacy systems are also discussed.

The Large Hadron Collider will soon undergo an upgrade to increase its luminosity by a factor of ~10. A crucial part of this upgrade will be replacement of the NbTi final focus magnets with Nb3Sn magnets that achieve a ~50% increase in the field strength. This will be the first ever large scale implementation of Nb3Sn magnets in a particle accelerator. This talk will present the program to fabricate these components and first results from horizontal tests of fully assembled cryoassemblies.