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The superconducting magnet circuits of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN undergo a commissioning campaign at regular intervals, referred to as Hardware Commissioning (HWC), to validate magnet powering and protection functions. During each campaign, more than 1,500 circuits must be commissioned, requiring the execution and analysis of several thousand powering tests. Historically, this process relied on legacy or manual tools, resulting in high workload and sometimes inconsistent results.
To streamline the validation process, a Python-based automated analysis framework has been developed within the Signal Monitoring (SigMon) project over the past two years. The 2026 HWC campaign marked the first time this automated analysis was applied to all powering tests across the superconducting magnet circuits of the LHC. This paper describes the SigMon analysis framework, reports on the 2026 HWC campaign, evaluates the impact of automation, and presents key circuit performance findings.
| Paper status | Resubmitted proceeding files received and assigned to an editor. Accepted by Submitter. |
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