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Collaboration on LHC. Over 7 years Chohan led this international team which fully tested, qualified and trained up about 1300 superconducting magnets for use in the LHC. Chohan became member of the joint CERN-
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Storage Ring in 1989. In 1993 he taught a course at the CERN Accelerator School on Accelerator Systems, held at the Centre for Advance Technology, Indore, India.
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