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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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LHC images © CERNBlood SEM image © David Gregory & Debbie Marshall, Wellcome ImagesHaemoglobin molecule image CC BY-SA Richard Wheeler
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