LHC Radio Frequency - point 4

Visit the heart of the LHC accelerator! The particles are boosted by the accelerating cavities to reach 99.99% the speed of light in each of their 11,000 circuits per second.

Radio-frequency (RF) cavities are the foundation of most modern particle accelerators. Come and play an interactive game in which you can fine-tune virtual RF cavities to keep a particle beam on track.

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Discover an emerging acceleration technology that has the potential to drastically reduce the size, and thus the cost, of accelerators in the next several decades.

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Did you know that you can detect a material without touching it by measuring its electrical properties? Get a live demonstration of how changes in electrical capacitance can be used to detect movements of your hand, to count sheets of paper and much more than this in the context of particle accelerators.

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You're the engineer-in-charge of the LHC control room. Before your shift ends, you will have to accelerate the two particle beams, maintain their trajectories with powerful magnets, and make the beams collide. Will you successfully complete the LHC run? Maybe find new particles? Play this escape room to find out.

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Discover the equipment that is used in the LHC tunnel to protect the LHC's electrical circuits in case of problems: electronic cards, large mechanical switches, diodes that can work in cryogenic conditions, power supplies, and more.

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Marvel at these simple but entertaining experiments, often bordering on the magical, which demonstrate different states of matter and magnetism in a fun way.

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The LHC fault burner is a powerful device that uses high electrical current and voltage to eliminate metallic debris from the LHC superconducting circuits and improve their performance. Want to see how it works? Spectacular special effects guaranteed.

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Point 4 - LHC

Take a walk through the underground tunnel of the world's largest accelerator. Among the highlights, you will see the superconducting cavities that accelerate the particles in the LHC, the bending magnets of the machine and the cavern with radio-frequency equipment.

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Imagine yourself in the role of an LHC operator: observe how particle beams are injected from one accelerator into another and how the beams are kept under control until they collide to produce new particles in the LHC experiments.

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Become an operator of your own table-top accelerator. Try to inject, accelerate and keep a steel ball circulating at "high energy". You can either rely on full automation of the machine or observe it and try to control it yourself manually like a professional CERN operator. Will you reach the incredible 0.000 001 % of the speed of light? It's all in your hands!

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