How an army of engineers battles contamination and sleep deprivation to take hadron collider to new heights

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    https://theconversation.com/how-an-army-of-engineers-battles-contamination-and-sleep-deprivation-to-take-hadron-collider-to-new-heights-67073

    The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world’s largest particle accelerator, and experiments like this have reached a scale where physicists are no longer able to build them alone. Instead, qualified engineers now lead the construction of these behemoths. And we are part of a team of engineers and physicists working on upgrading the LHC and eventually constructing a successor.

    Period17 Oct 2016

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    • TitleHow an army of engineers battles contamination and sleep deprivation to take hadron collider to new heights
      Date17/10/16
      PersonsRobert Appleby

    Keywords

    • physics
    • CERN
    • Large Hadron Collider