In the fourth and final part of the guestblog from Alice Sheppard, we conclude our trip to CERN with a pictorial look round the ATLAS detector. If you’d rather start at the beginning, then part one is here, part two here and part three here. I’d like to thank Alice for assuaging somewhat my annoyance [...]
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This is part 3 of Alice Sheppard’s trip to CERN, our first guest blog. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 here.
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The main tunnel is 100m underground, and 27km in circumference, with detectors at various intervals like beads on a bracelet. The circular tunnel lies under both France and Switzerland, so, as someone commented, sub-atomic [...] -
Continuing our first set of guest blogs at Chris Lintott’s Universe, this is the second
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part of Alice’s trip around CERN. The first part is here.
The talk began with a description of the international co-operation involved, the 20 member states, and the Big Question they are investigating: “How Nature Really Works”. The lecturer described their branch [...] -
Alice Sheppard will be well known to any of you who’ve been to the Galaxy Zoo forum where she does a sterling job as moderator. Not content with putting her to work there, when I heard she was going to particle physics lab CERN in Geneva along with her cohort of trainee teachers, I insisted [...]
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