• The estimated total mass of the LHC steel support structures - 1300 tonnes.

• 50,000 tonnes of steel sheets for the accelerator's superconducting magnet yokes. The yokes constitute approximately 80% of the accelerator's weight and, if placed side by side, would stretch over 20 km! see here

Vacuum pipes

The cold bore tubes of the dipole magnets are seamless non-magnetic austenitic steel tubes 15.6 m long. The insulated cold bore tubes are placed in the aperture of the coils and form part of the inner wall of the helium vessel that contains the active part of the magnet. The cold bore tube is the passage for the circulating particle beams and as such, the tube wall separates the helium volume from the beam vacuum.

Main characteristics of the bare cold bore tubes for the main LHC dipoles & SSS
Material Seamless AISI 316 LN, External diameter 53 mm, Wall thickness 1.5 mm
Leak tightness < 1.10-11 Pa m3 s-1 with an external helium pressure of 2.6 MPa (absolute)

Beam screen which sits inside the cold bore tubes: The manufacturing process starts by co-laminating a specially developed low permeability 1mm thick austenitic stainless steel strip with a 75 µm copper sheet and rolling a saw-tooth structure which will
intercept photons at normal incidence, thereby reducing the amount of reflected photons. The pumping slots are punched into this composite strip, which is then rolled into its final shape and closed by a longitudinal weld.

Full details in chapter 12 of the LHC design report:
http://ab-div.web.cern.ch/ab-div/Publications/LHC-DesignReport.html

Magnets

The manufacture of the coils, which contain the superconducting cable to provide the all-important 8.33 T magnetic field, represents 60% of the magnet production work. The niobium-titanium coils create the magnetic fields to guide the two counter-rotating proton beams in separate magnetic channels, but within the same physical structure.

The coils are surrounded by non-magnetic "collars" of austenitic steel, a material that combines the required properties of good thermal contraction and magnetic permeability. The collars hold the coils in place against the strong magnetic forces that arise when the coils are at full field - the force loading 1 m of dipole is about 400 tonnes.

12 million steel collars for the LHC main magnets.