Category Archives: CERN

Passeport Big Bang

7 April 2013CERN, Cities, Copenhagen, Geneva, Niels Bohr Institue, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

On June 2nd CERN will celebrate the inauguration of the new Passeport Big Bang, an educative tour around the Large Hadron Collider.

As part of the inauguration event, I’ll be exhibiting the LEGO® ATLAS model and put up the station on the tour where visitors can win prices by building their own miniature models. For that purpose, and with the help from CERN, the HEP group at NBI and my private LEGO® collection, I put up a little box :)

If successful, we’ll doing the same thing during Kulturnatten in Copenhagen, October 11th 2013.

End of run

16 February 2013CERN, PhysicsSascha

Today the first (real) running period of the LHC ended. We’ll have a shutdown of about two years to repair, upgrade and whatnot the LHC and the experiments. And of course a lot of time to analyse the data we took in the past years … for the moment that still means searching for long-lived stable massive particles for me. Let’s see what comes next …

CERN Open Day 2013

23 January 2013CERN, Geneva, OutreachSascha

It’s official, CERN will have another Open Day in September this year.

On Saturday, September 28th you can visit CERN if you know someone working there and on Sunday, September 29th everybody can have a look!

On the previous Open Day in 2008, we managed to see all experiments and the tunnel during the friend-and-family day. So let me know if you wanna join this year’s tour (again).

The CMS model is out in public

14 January 2013CERN, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

I’ve already seen it a few months ago, but finally the CMS LEGO model went public on the web site of the high energy physics group of the University of Maryland.

I must say, it is a very nice piece of work!

Let’s see if I can convince my LEGO friends to produce a few of these as well!

Kulturnatten – Culture night in Copenhagen

13 October 2012CERN, Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institue, Outreach, PhysicsSascha

It was a long, but successful day yesterday!

I spent about 17 hours at the institute, but besides a bit of ‘regular’ work we managed to set up small but quite nice exhibition about particle physics, the LHC and CERN in general and ATLAS in more detail. This year we also managed to show the ATLAS LEGO model for the first time at Kulturnatten. With no surprise, quite a success! There were actually people coming specifically to see the model! :)

In addition to the little exhibition we had an extra auditorium were set up ATLAS Virtual Visits for the first time in Copenhagen. We had in total four 30 minutes live connections to the ATLAS Control Room in Geneva, Switzerland. There were between twenty to thirty people in each session, that sometimes (actually quite a few of them) stayed longer than an hour to ask questions and listen both to the guys we had at CERN and us locally.

I might at some point also post a link to the recording of the sessions here. [link]

To round of the day, and to make yet a bit longer, we used our webcast hardware to set up a remote viewing room for Holger Beck‘s late night lectures, which were otherwise heavily ‘over-booked’.

So it was a long day, but I’m quite satisfied with what we managed to do!