how do you drive the world’s biggest machine?

How do you drive the world’s biggest machine?

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Before we start

• Please don’t touch the equipment• In case of fire…• High voltages• Please don’t volunteer if you have

a pacemaker or are pregnant• Please switch off all mobile phones

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

Large Hadron Collider

Large Hadron Collider

Large Hadron Collider

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

LHC injector

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

Human scale

1 m

Optical microscopeup to 1000×

Electron microscopeup to 500,000×

Particle acceleratorup to 10,000,000×

Diamond Light Source

LHC RF cavity

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

E = mc2

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

ATLAS detector

ATLAS detector

LHC computers

Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

Large Hadron Collider: CMS

Large Hadron Collider: LHCb

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