When spending millions on a film production one has to make sure that it is packed with special effects and huge advertising campaign to become a blockbuster. When spending money on research and innovation people are interested in results and not in cosmetics. When Hollywood film makers visited CERN antimatter production facility they were disappointed. See these photos of the heavy ions collider and you’ll understand why.
The proton beam was injected and made 3 rounds in the 27km long ring of LHC at about 9:30 today.
The oposite beam will be shot in about half an hour!
The first beam in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be injected on the 10th of September at 9:30 Geneva time. Watch this event live on CERN’s webcast
If you think it is a “StarGate” on the above image you are almost right. To be precise, it is a part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at Point 5 on 27km ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Nuclear Research Center) near Geneva (Switzerland). The CMS detector is 12 500 tones superconductor solenoid capable of generating 4 Teslas magnetic field. It is located in Cessy (France) almost 100m underground. Hopefully this monster will detect Higgs boson when later this year LHC starts its operation.
On the above photo you may see a part of the tube consisting of superconducting electromagnets just before it enters the CMS detector where two beams of particles traveling at close to the speed of light with very high energies will collide.
Both photos were taken on Sunday the 13th of April 2008 during the visit of Point 5 in Cessy with Nokia N95 and posted with Wavelog.