Back in July, we were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to tour CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider. In addition to getting some great information on how the machine gets protons up to ...
The ATLAS particle detector at CERN. It uses a calorimeter to measure the energies of particles that fly off after each proton collision. Maximilien Brice/CERN An image taken inside the tunnel ...
Tours: Didn’t win a golden ticket for a guided tour? The CERN campus has much to see and do – and admission is free. Thoughtfully designed exhibits, videos and hands-on displays inside the Microcosm ...
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I recently visited CERN to tour the LHC, probably the craziest place I have ever been! Hidden 100m beneath Geneva, Switzerland there is a 27km long tunnel that is colder and emptier than outer space!
The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going on tour. Not the real one of course, but a 150 kg wooden replica of the cathedral-sized detector. Technicians at the DESY ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European physics research campus in Geneva, is a fantastically huge and ...
Physicist Abhigyan Dasgupta - “Riju” to his family and friends - looks over his shoulder to caution our 12-member group as we prepare to descend 300 feet beneath the French countryside into the ...