Best Practice: Cabling the world's largest particle detector
A practical example from CadCabel I DESY I EPLAN
5,160 sensitive optical detectors are attached to 86 steel cables buried up to 2.5 kilometres into the Antarctic ice sheet – wiring the IceCube Neutrino Observatory on Antarctica takes place under some of the planet’s most extreme conditions. Martin Richter explains how CadCabel designs cables and wire harnesses in 3D for the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and automatically outputs production documentation.
An overview of the topics:
- Deep freeze: Challenges for cable engineering at up to -70°C
- Ice-bound: A live connection to the cable engineering for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Thawed out: Practical tips for cabling under extreme conditions
