Cern LHC Open Seasson (II)

After a comment received on the last post about the Cern visit, I realize much more about how luck I was. I know it's not the same, but I like to put here some other photos from the visit.

This ones are from the atlas detector. First of all we access to the controls room (where I take freak photos about the GUIs and how the information is shown). After a nice presentation, where the slides was passing automatically probably to avoid delays, we move to the first flour to watch a 3D video.

But the important thing is in the underground. They only allows us to see the detector from this point. (only two groups at the same time in the cave).

On the CMS detector, was different. They likes more to shows us the machine. After a little video we was directed to an elevator. Bad name because this goes 100m underground.

They shows you the machine in a guided tour, where main groups of around 15 can be. This gives much more agility to the visit.

From the CMS building, a visit to the accelerator cave was possible. But for safety reasons only one group of 5 persons was allow to be under ground. And was impossible for us to be there.

I repeat that I am sorry for the people that, after horrible waits, was not able to visit the Cern's news detectors. We was so lucky visiting two of the four new LHC detectors. One open day is not enough...