Important parts of The LHC
The LHC is made up of many parts that
allows it do do what it does. The next part of this
website will cover some of those parts, in some details.
Picture from :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
ATLAS
The
interactions
in the ATLAS detectors create an enormous flow
of data. To digest
the data, ATLAS uses an advanced “trigger”
system to tell the detector which
events to record and which to ignore.
“ATLAS
is 46 metres long,
25 metres in diameter, and weighs about
7,000 tonnes; it contains
some 3000 km of cable.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment
Picturefrom:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment#/media/File:CERN_Atlas_Caverne.jpg
Alice
ALICE: ALICE is
focusing on the
physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy
densities. In order to
identify all the particles that are coming out of the
system of the QGP ALICE
is using a set of 18
detectors that give
information about the mass, the velocity and the
electrical sign of the
particles
From:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment)
CMS
CMS: CMS is
21.6 meters long,
15 m in diameter,
and weighs about
14,000 tones. Approximately
3,800
people, representing 199 scientific institutes and 43
countries, form the
CMS collaboration who built and now operate the
detector. It
is located in an underground cavern
at Cessy in France
just across the border from Geneva.
Picturefrom:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid#/media/File:CMS_Under_Construction_Apr_05.jp
