> Open House: Virtual tour to showcase ATLAS
Open House: Virtual tour to showcase ATLAS
May 29, 2008
The world’s biggest physics experiment – the ATLAS project – begins this fall, and while thousands of scientists around the world prepare, Simon Fraser University will open a window to the research during its Open House on May 31.
Visitors can take in a 3D virtual tour of the ATLAS project at a special presentation in the IRMACS 3D Theatre (Applied Sciences Building, room 10900) at 2:45 p.m.
The global project will extend knowledge of the fundamental components of matter and their interactions. Scientists say it will change our understanding of the universe.
Researcher Dugan O’Neil is part of the SFU team involved in Canada’s contribution to the project and will lead the virtual tour.
He’ll explain how data will be collected from experiments undertaken in the world’s biggest machine – the Large Hadron Collider, an underground accelerator housed at the CERN facility in Geneva – and analysed at data collection centres around the world, including Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility.
The experiments will involve the collision of beams as they circulate at never before reached speeds in the LHC tunnel.
O’Neil says a second and final “dress rehearsal” in early June will put scientists through the ropes with a simulated data collection and analysis exercise. Hidden in the data will be some new simulated physics that the scientists will have to find. SFU researchers will be part of the exercise.
SFU is also hosting the ATLAS Physics Workshop of the Americas June 16-18.
In October, a cross-Canada ‘master class’ in particle physics for high school students is being organized. SFU will be one of the sites where students will do some analysis of simulated data and join in a video-link with other students across Canada.
Visitors can take in a 3D virtual tour of the ATLAS project at a special presentation in the IRMACS 3D Theatre (Applied Sciences Building, room 10900) at 2:45 p.m.
The global project will extend knowledge of the fundamental components of matter and their interactions. Scientists say it will change our understanding of the universe.
Researcher Dugan O’Neil is part of the SFU team involved in Canada’s contribution to the project and will lead the virtual tour.
He’ll explain how data will be collected from experiments undertaken in the world’s biggest machine – the Large Hadron Collider, an underground accelerator housed at the CERN facility in Geneva – and analysed at data collection centres around the world, including Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility.
The experiments will involve the collision of beams as they circulate at never before reached speeds in the LHC tunnel.
O’Neil says a second and final “dress rehearsal” in early June will put scientists through the ropes with a simulated data collection and analysis exercise. Hidden in the data will be some new simulated physics that the scientists will have to find. SFU researchers will be part of the exercise.
SFU is also hosting the ATLAS Physics Workshop of the Americas June 16-18.
In October, a cross-Canada ‘master class’ in particle physics for high school students is being organized. SFU will be one of the sites where students will do some analysis of simulated data and join in a video-link with other students across Canada.