1. How do you drive the world’s biggest machine? www.physics.ox.ac.uk/accelerate

2. 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

4. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

5. Large Hadron Collider

9. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

11. LHC injector

12. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

14. Human scale 1 m

15. Optical microscope up to 1000×

16. Electron microscope up to 500,000×

17. Particle accelerator up to 10,000,000×

18. Diamond Light Source

20. LHC RF cavity

21. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

23. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

26. E = mc 2

28. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

30. ATLAS detector

32. LHC computers

33. Recipe for a particle accelerator Particles Energy Control Collision Detection

34. Large Hadron Collider: CMS

35. Large Hadron Collider: LHCb

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