Canada
On 8 October, Alan Shotter, director of Canada's TRIUMF laboratory, and Ewart Blackmore, the Canadian responsible for coordinating CERN-Canada collaboration, signed an extension to Canada's agreement to contribute to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project with CERN director-general Luciano Maiani. Worth C$11.5 million (€7.4 million), the largest and most important item in this extended contribution is a series of double-aperture warm quadrupoles for LHC beam cleaning. These magnets, of which the 33rd to be produced is pictured here at ALSTOM Canada in Quebec, have a unique pole structure. (Photo: Yvon Langevin, ALSTOM Canada.)