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How do you drive the world’s biggest machine?

Before we start Please don’t touch the equipment In case of fire… High voltages Please don’t volunteer if you have a pacemaker or are pregnant Please switch off all mobile phones

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

Large Hadron Collider

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

LHC injector

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

Human scale 1 m

Optical microscope up to 1000×

Electron microscope up to 500,000×

Particle accelerator up to 10,000,000×

Diamond Light Source

LHC RF cavity

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

E = mc 2

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

ATLAS detector

LHC computers

Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

Large Hadron Collider: CMS

Large Hadron Collider: LHCb

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