Photog day at Fermi Lab

Every two years the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has a Particle Physics Photowalk where they escort 50 photographers around the facility. It is very interesting. Here are some images from the walk.

Up until 2009, they were producing and colliding protons with anti-protons but now are down for redesign for muon particles.

Looking up in the lobby of the building where we met in the morning.

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A large setion of ppipe to be used in the new operations.

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Everyone needs a 'Low Level RF System Electron Gun'.

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Just pretty lights in the computer room.

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A pressure tank inthe component testing facility.

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More to come.

Air compressor in the testing facility.

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Work station. Not as high tech as one would think.

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View of the proton/anti-proton detector. Not something we would have seen if operational.

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Another image of the collider/detector.

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The ‘ring’ on the left was where the anti-protons were made and the one on the right was for short term ‘storage’ until they were ready to send them to the big ring for proton collision.

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Terry

You know the people that work here have no idea how beautiful some of their workspaces can be.

Very cool! Great photos of a very cool place. I gotta make sure Photo Dad, who is a physicist, sees these :)

I even like the HDR treatment ;)

These are great. I appreciate the clarity of the images as well as the intricate detail.

Quite a workplace.

Thanks for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing these images.

You always come with interesting photos of interesting places.

Liz

Super cool! Great use of HDR!
Stuff like this fascinates me.

Really interesting series !

amazing details

That'd be a sweet walk to take. Great job on the hdr.

I'd like to have seen that.
And things like the beam dump, a lump of metal where the protons hitting it sound like a jackhammer (not much m but plenty of c^2 so huge e = mc^2 in each one).
So much of the basic technology of the rings is vacuum plumbing, and can be remarkably low tech.
That doesn't even look like a superconducting magnet in the beam ring.

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Originally Posted by SmartWombat

I'd like to have seen that.
And things like the beam dump, a lump of metal where the protons hitting it sound like a jackhammer (not much m but plenty of c^2 so huge e = mc^2 in each one).
So much of the basic technology of the rings is vacuum plumbing, and can be remarkably low tech.
That doesn't even look like a superconducting magnet in the beam ring.

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If I got it right, this was one of the splitters that they 'hit' with the beam. The beam would go in one of the front holes, hit the material (???) inside and the particles would come out the back holes. Rotating the splitter would determine the angle of the split off particles. Also, when the 'material' inside one hole was used up, they would simply go to a different hole.

I think that they said the beam speed was 0.997c.

No liquid nitrogen at these rings, so just lots of big electro-magnets. The large magnet shown on the right ring is about 48 tons and there are lots of them.

Terry

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