Visiting the ATLAS Detector
This morning I was taken on a tour of the ATLAS cavern, here are some photos of the colossus!
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- The surface control room.
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- Mural painted on the ATLAS surface building.
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- Mural from the side.
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- The surface entrance eye scanning machine!
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- The underground entrance.
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- Access is only allowed during extended shutdowns.
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- The gold chambers detect muons, the silver bar is the proton beam pipe.
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- Visible are the toroid magnets and calorimeter endcap.
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- The red area is where the protons enter the detector just before colliding.
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- In total around 80 million channels are read out digitally during a collision!
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- Me next to the detector giving an idea of how giant it really is.
