fermilab 2008

a visit to the world's largest functioning particle accellerator.

camera-based linear accelleration
[ smaller ] 		looking down from the 15th floor of wilson hall
[ smaller ] 		the wilson hall atrium
[ smaller ] 		rapt
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looking along the beam path
[ smaller ] 		the raw niobium-titanium copper wire billet
[ smaller ] 		partially-drawn version of the same billet, now one-eighth the size
[ smaller ] 		dangerous blikenlights
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danger, danger, high voltage!
[ smaller ] 		bubble chamber images in the art gallery
[ smaller ] 		bob engaged in metaphotography
[ smaller ] 		apparently i need a shave
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liz
[ smaller ] 		our fearless driver, nate
[ smaller ] 		ceiling detail with sprinkler
[ smaller ] 		looking down the atrium low ceiling
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ceiling detail
[ smaller ] 		round corners are favored for high-energy applications
[ smaller ] 		these wires did not make the cut
[ smaller ] 		detector electronics
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detector electronics detail
[ smaller ] 		endcap of one of the detectors on display
[ smaller ] 		the lift
[ smaller ] 		the fermi national accellerator laboratory
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the fermilab logo from above
[ smaller ] 		atrium flags
[ smaller ] 		more atrium flags
[ smaller ] 		the pendulum of damocles
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tubes
[ smaller ] 		phil does a liz impression, and julie greencards me.
[ smaller ] 		looking down onto the grounds
[ smaller ] 		the gang gets the lowdown from our docent
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grr ohms
[ smaller ] 		a pre-tour lecture
[ smaller ] 		pull those levers!
[ smaller ] 		continental electronics logo
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this way to the main control room
[ smaller ] 		its not the GCC, we swear
[ smaller ] 		main control room
[ smaller ] 		our docent, mary, and the green group
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mr. roger's accellerator
[ smaller ] 		a mockup of the inside of the ring
[ smaller ] 		machines!
[ smaller ] 		watching the lecture
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phil, immediately before being told about NbTi wire bursting into flames
[ smaller ] 		this piggy is for science!
[ smaller ] 		*the* phil tom.
[ smaller ] 		mr. the plaque
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just after the walton-cockroft generator, on its way to the linac
[ smaller ] 		radio rad hazzard
[ smaller ] 		computers are dangerous
[ smaller ] 		ramsey auditorium
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the back wall of the ramsey auditorium
[ smaller ] 		200Mhz RF pumps
[ smaller ] 		radio frequency gear
[ smaller ] 		anode water out
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800Mhz RF pumps
[ smaller ] 		more radio gear
[ smaller ] 		liz accellerator
[ smaller ] 		waveguide detail
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oxygen-free copper acellerator cutout
[ smaller ] 		copper cutout
[ smaller ] 		the main ring
[ smaller ] 		more of the main ring
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robert in the rain
[ smaller ] 		ask-a-scientist
[ smaller ] 		lichtenberg figures, a form of charged acrylic art
[ smaller ] 		passages in the deep
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ack thbbt!
[ smaller ] 		the finest in black walnut ceiling sculpture
[ smaller ] 		the top of the hall
[ smaller ] 		looking up from below the atrium in the rain
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NbTi wire, not currently superconducting
[ smaller ] 		fermilab wiring sampler cross sections
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all images © Hugh Kennedy unless otherwise noted