Prévessin

CERN’s second-largest site, straddling the communes of Prévessin-Moëns and Saint-Genis-Pouilly, was constructed in the 1970s at the same time as the SPS accelerator – a 7-km ring that seemed huge at the time!

Connect a fire hose and a nozzle, turn on the water and try to reach a target.

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Come and watch a play about a quirky character who loves science history and scientists. "Welcome travelers. You are curious, greedy, thirsty for science ... Open your ears, wake up your neurons! We are all children of heaven, between emptiness, light and matter, the Children of the stars! Where does this world come from? How was it created?"

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Watch a play about a physicist who loves the particles that make up matter, including us.

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From 3D printing to vacuum impregnation and the casting of elastic polymers, head here to learn about polymer techniques used at CERN.

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How will the future be shaped by the new trends? Come and discuss about our common future in a programme of talks and debates infused with comedy and theatre.

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Head to this tent to see a model of the ProtoDUNE detector cryostat, the largest ever cryostat made for a particle-physics experiment. Adults and kids alike will be able to put on the type of garments used by the detector operators and take a souvenir picture at a selfie station. A virtual visit to the future DUNE detector is also available.

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Want to see detectors designed to study neutrinos, the lightest known massive particles? Come to this guided tour of the protoDUNE detectors, prototypes for what will be a much larger liquid-argon DUNE detector at the US Long Baseline Neutrino Facility.

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Put yourself in the shoes of the operators of the protoDUNE neutrino detector and learn how they visualise the data that the detector captures.

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Discover the next generation of radio-frequency power amplifiers based on solid-state technology and see a 'travelling-wave cavity' to accelerate particles.

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Come here to see the robots and the virtual-reality and artificial-intelligence technologies that carry out maintenance work for CERN's accelerators.

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