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Okay, the last of my Fermilab posts...
Aug. 21st, 2014 07:15 pmI decided to go ahead and post a selection of the photos I took while at Fermilab. I went out for a few minutes one afternoon (while some work was being done on the detectors that I didn't need to be part of, and because I think someone had finally managed to piss me off and I figured a break was in order) to take some pictures of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility building and environs. That was on May 21st. I got out again on the 22nd, after the test beam campaign was over and took some photos around the Fermilab campus. In particular, I walked around the Tevatron Accelerator Ring (about 4 miles / 6.4km or so), a lovely nature walk? Go figure. Surreality was the order of the day that day. Here, I have had to shrink the pictures drastically to fit them two by two (I took these with my cheapo digital camera rather than my crappy phone camera), so if you want to see larger versions of them, you can click on the image and the full version will open in a new tab.
First up is a view of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FBTB) buildings. I call this one "The Rainbow Connection". The entrance I showed in my previous post is on the right hand side of the building in this picture (behind the buildings and central test beam concrete shielding that runs off the left of the photo). I thought the rusting buildings in the foreground made for an interesting shot. The part of the building on the left hand side of the central test beam housed both the ILCTA Horizontal Test Stand (for the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC, which might be built in Japan if it ever does end up getting built) and the High Intensity Neutrino Source R&D Lab (yes, Fermilab generates shit tons of neutrinos and sends them through the Earth to detectors on the other side of the continent, and they have plans to generate much higher quantities in the future... heh, "high intensity neutrino flux" sounds like something from Star Trek). The thing straight up the road and to the left of the buildings (behind the red construction fencing) is the Muon g-2 Ring (pronounced "gee minus two"), but more on that later. If you turned to the left from that picture, you had a view of the main accelerator beamline. They bled a small quantity of the particles from the main beamline to the test beam areas for 4 seconds every 60 seconds, but the bulk of the 120GeV protons produced in the accelerator ring were sent straight down the vacuum pipe shielded under the berm you see. You can see an access door (locked and interlocked) going into the berm and a barn behind the berm (this is where the bison are cared for, amongst other things). The windvane on the barn is, in my opinion, a nice touch here (for a heaping dose of surreality).
( Tons of lovely pictures of Fermilab under the cut... )
And finally, to wrap up, the inside of Wilson Hall is just as cool as the outside...
First up is a view of the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FBTB) buildings. I call this one "The Rainbow Connection". The entrance I showed in my previous post is on the right hand side of the building in this picture (behind the buildings and central test beam concrete shielding that runs off the left of the photo). I thought the rusting buildings in the foreground made for an interesting shot. The part of the building on the left hand side of the central test beam housed both the ILCTA Horizontal Test Stand (for the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC, which might be built in Japan if it ever does end up getting built) and the High Intensity Neutrino Source R&D Lab (yes, Fermilab generates shit tons of neutrinos and sends them through the Earth to detectors on the other side of the continent, and they have plans to generate much higher quantities in the future... heh, "high intensity neutrino flux" sounds like something from Star Trek). The thing straight up the road and to the left of the buildings (behind the red construction fencing) is the Muon g-2 Ring (pronounced "gee minus two"), but more on that later. If you turned to the left from that picture, you had a view of the main accelerator beamline. They bled a small quantity of the particles from the main beamline to the test beam areas for 4 seconds every 60 seconds, but the bulk of the 120GeV protons produced in the accelerator ring were sent straight down the vacuum pipe shielded under the berm you see. You can see an access door (locked and interlocked) going into the berm and a barn behind the berm (this is where the bison are cared for, amongst other things). The windvane on the barn is, in my opinion, a nice touch here (for a heaping dose of surreality).
( Tons of lovely pictures of Fermilab under the cut... )
And finally, to wrap up, the inside of Wilson Hall is just as cool as the outside...
