CERN In Focus

A video by CERN providing updates on CERN's activies on 6 week basis. Date- 5th March 2008. Source- http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Video%20Movies

'First edition 2008 of Cern in Focus. On behalf of the audiovisual team, a selection of the latest videos filmed at CERN. Every six weeks, we will bring you the latest in CERN's activities, from LHC start up to the Computing Grid, featuring the experiments and many other goings-on at CERN. The agenda of this first edition of CERN in Focus features the visit of the prime minister of Malta, Lawrence Gonzi... CMS and the final descent of the YE-1 end cap... The departure of UA1 magnets to Japan... The start up of sectors 4 and 5... And finally, in our sports round up... We'll talk about football. New in brief this month... The final bolt is in place : On 7th November, in the bowels of the LHC tunnel, CERN's Director General Robert Aymar tightened a gold-plated bolt for the last arc interconnection of sector 1-2. This symbolic gesture marks the completion of all the arc interconnections of the LHC. Last welding work: it was never going to be an easy task. On this day last year just one sector had been completed, but now all eight are ready. All in all, around 1700 magnets have been connected together, requiring a total of about 65,000 electrical 'splices' of superconducting cables and 40,000 (that's 10km worth!) of leak-tight welds. ATLAS: Anna: The 8th and 15th February respectively saw the transport and descent of the small wheel for the ATLAS experiment at point 1. Like briefly separated twin sisters, ATLAS' small wheels were once again united at Point 1 on St Valentine's Day. The lowering of the small wheels into the tunnel will mark the end of the installation of detector components for the experiment. Jacques: Collège Léman : In November, a number of female students from the College du Leman in Geneva came to CERN to experience a shadowing day with women in the IT department.'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CERN
• In
• Focus
• LHC
• particle
• physics
• CMS
• ATLAS
• magnets

[rkaid7]

LoL, youtube no hopers.

The cost is about the same as 2 stealth fighters no?... in the scheme of it, the cost is nothing.

The benefit could change the way we see and use science helping all of humanity.

[Perrickan]

Do you own a mobile phone? You know, a technology made possible by particle physics?

[Sgrunterundt]

@bahrom69 "What is the main objective of this huge project?"

Discovering the basic laws of the universe.

"Who is financing all of this?"

Most European countries.

"What are they going to do with this knowledge?"

We don't know yet. It is ground research. But it is the continuation of the basic human curiosity that has brought us to where we are today. People also asked Faraday what electro-magnetism could be used for. He replied: "what is the use of a new born baby?"

That baby has grown up.

[bahrom69]

What is the main objective of this huge project? Who is financing all of this? What are they going to do with this knowledge? These are the questions which will bring you to the truth of all of this.

[stefan21913]

what is CERN?

[sidewaysfcs0718]

please tell me ur kidding :)

[adzii1]

7 days get it fight!

[quarkphotonect]

Blimin French person!

[grotillum]

@DrDarkEnergy

I think you are a creationist. So please stop the bullshit, you don't even know what you are speaking. All you care about is that stupid holly book who approves slavery and tells us that the world was made in 6 days (LOL).