Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or bust!
Jan. 24th, 2018 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pheloniusfriarI am heading to Geneva today (arriving Friday morning local time) for a 10 day stay at CERN to participate in a workshop on the sTGC (small-wire Thin Gap Chamber) detector DAQ (Data AcQuisition) system. The sTGC is part of the NSW upgrade (New Small Wheel... where "small" is extremely relative as the "wheel" is 10 metres across) to the ATLAS (worst acronym ever, makes me cringe every time, A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS, ugh) experiment at the LHC due to be installed in 2019. Once past the alphabet soup, I am very excited to be going as this is my first time there!
If you are at all curious about the New Small Wheel project (and/or the sTGC in specific), here is a good summary article on the subject. If you look at the group picture of the testbeam team at Fermilab, I'm the bald guy at the back in the CKCU t-shirt...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405601415006719
Important note: the article is not behind a paywall :). You can download the PDF.
If you are at all curious about the New Small Wheel project (and/or the sTGC in specific), here is a good summary article on the subject. If you look at the group picture of the testbeam team at Fermilab, I'm the bald guy at the back in the CKCU t-shirt...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405601415006719
Important note: the article is not behind a paywall :). You can download the PDF.
