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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

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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Large Hadron Collider

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Large Hadron Collider

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Large Hadron Collider

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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LHC injector

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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Human scale

1 m

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Optical microscopeup to 1000×

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Electron microscopeup to 500,000×

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Particle acceleratorup to 10,000,000×

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Diamond Light Source

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LHC RF cavity

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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E = mc2

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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ATLAS detector

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ATLAS detector

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LHC computers

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Recipe for a particle accelerator

• Particles• Energy• Control• Collision• Detection

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Large Hadron Collider: CMS

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Large Hadron Collider: LHCb

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