Category Archives: CERN

Weltmaschine.de

10 September 2008Berlin, CERN, DESY, World Wide WebSascha

Just on time for the LHC start-up the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the German institutes working on the LHC and it’s experiments launched a new website called Weltmaschine.de (only German though).

It is another piece of an outreach campaign that started with the very successful LHC-Train that was cruising the S-Train ring in Berlin for the Long Night of Science in June.
The Grand Finale is an exhibition in the so far unused subway station Bundestag in the period from October 15th to November 16th.

LHC Start-Up, My Boss On Air & Several Articles

9 September 2008CERN, DESYSascha

The LHC start-up is approaching … to be precise, it’s tomorrow!
This morning at 6:07 am a local radio station was broadcasting an interview with my boss Klaus about this. The according article along with the recording can be found here (German only though).

In addition the FAZ (a German newspaper) featured ATLAS in a nice article today.
You can access it online here (again German only).

Also the news site Heise.de as well as Technology Review featured the LHC in articles today : Heise’ article, TR’s article (again German only).

Science Night and The LHC Express

15 June 2008Berlin, CERN, DESYSascha

Yesterday (June 14th 2008) I was guide in the LHC Express at the Science Night in Berlin.
The LHC Express was a pimped city train (S-Bahn) that was circling the city ring from about 16h00 till 1h00. After my three hours shift, explaining the LHC and it’s connected experiments as well as the physics behind all this to the visitors/public, I had problems speaking …
With some minor issues/problems/difficulties I still think it was a big success.

Links in German: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, S-Bahn

Finally out of ATLAS

16 May 2008CERNSascha

After roughly a year of internal reviewing the ATLAS publication committee and the ATLAS spokesperson have finally approved the paper I was, amoung others, working on during my master thesis.
The “Re-evaluation of the LHC potential for the measurement of mW” can now be found in SPIRES and hep-ex arXiv and has been submitted to The European Physical Journal C.

Angela@ATLAS

30 April 2008CERNSascha

On April 29th Angela Merkel, the current German chancellor, visited ATLAS/CERN. The picture shows Rolf Heuer (the designated Director-General), Robert Aymar (the current Director-General), who knows, Angela Merkel and Peter Jenny (the ATLAS spokesman) in the ATLAS Control Room.
Since Mrs. Merkel is a graduated physicist it was actually about time for her to visit.
Especially since the public underground access is closing next week. From than on only a few people are allowed to go down and only after iris scan based authentification (cool but unfortunately needed due to French laws applying at the LHC).

Theres also an entry in Mrs. Merkel’s travelbook, see it here (but only in German, so far).