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Chances are you have heard about the Large Hadron Collider, perhaps because you've read
Dan Browns book, or you've seen the idiots who are afraid of black holes in the news. Or, if you're
really cool, you know what it's really about because you read some media that actually report some
facts about it (i'm not sure these exist outside the science communtiy, though...).
for this instructable i am going to have to assume the latter case.
While not entirely tounge-in-cheek, "How to use the LHC" is quite involved and cannot be finished
in one afternoon just using common household material, like most instructables. Rather, years and
years of tedious work are required, but other than that, you don't really need anything. a laptop helps
but chances are you've got that already...
We will have to require that you have a high school degree or equivalent that let's you enter
universities in your country - or, if your country does not have universities - you need a degree
that lets you study elsewhere.
Dan Browns book, or you've seen the idiots who are afraid of black holes in the news. Or, if you're
really cool, you know what it's really about because you read some media that actually report some
facts about it (i'm not sure these exist outside the science communtiy, though...).
for this instructable i am going to have to assume the latter case.
While not entirely tounge-in-cheek, "How to use the LHC" is quite involved and cannot be finished
in one afternoon just using common household material, like most instructables. Rather, years and
years of tedious work are required, but other than that, you don't really need anything. a laptop helps
but chances are you've got that already...
We will have to require that you have a high school degree or equivalent that let's you enter
universities in your country - or, if your country does not have universities - you need a degree
that lets you study elsewhere.
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Signing UpStep 1Find out what's up with LHC
LHC is run at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, built across the border to France.
Read the public stuff at their website: www.cern.ch
Or get down with alpinekat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
However, to a certain extend CERN is just a service provider, building, running and maintaining the LHC.
In order to really use it i.e. check out what happens in the proton-proton collisions produced by it,
what you need to do is join one of the experiments.
So, on the CERN website click on "Cern Users" to get to the real content.
There you will find a list of experiments.
Let's ignore the smaller ones for now and have a look at the big f*ckers: ATLAS and CMS:
http://atlas.ch/
http://cms.cern.ch/
i put their propagand pictures above.
have look at their webpages and pick one.
if you really think size matters, ATLAS is your choice.
Read the public stuff at their website: www.cern.ch
Or get down with alpinekat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
However, to a certain extend CERN is just a service provider, building, running and maintaining the LHC.
In order to really use it i.e. check out what happens in the proton-proton collisions produced by it,
what you need to do is join one of the experiments.
So, on the CERN website click on "Cern Users" to get to the real content.
There you will find a list of experiments.
Let's ignore the smaller ones for now and have a look at the big f*ckers: ATLAS and CMS:
http://atlas.ch/
http://cms.cern.ch/
i put their propagand pictures above.
have look at their webpages and pick one.
if you really think size matters, ATLAS is your choice.
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I was curious how I could have missed this very nice I'ble, but you created it just three weeks before I joined Instructables. I spent a year working with ATLAS (on the pileup simulation), but I'm now splitting my time between GEANT4 and CDMS (dark matter search, no beam-dump problems :-).
yes i remember i've seen a guy from SLAC commenting on Instructables before - probably it was you. I still pay a little attention to Instructables, but since the LHC is now running i'm heavily involved in analysis (also for ATLAS btw.) and I have little time for all the nice past-time projects Instructables has to offer.
Other than that, what's a two-year period for us particle physicists where the projects have 20 yearish lifetimes now - the Instructable may be two years old but the LHC has only just begun, and is even still several years from reaching its full energy. I'll see you around the next black hole i guess ;-)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Own-Black-Hole/
007dna
people who have read the safety report which is available here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3414
:)