From the CERN web: grid computing, night shift, ridge effect and more
This section highlights articles, blog posts and press releases published in the CERN web environment over the past weeks. This way, you won’t miss a thing...
Schoolboy uses grid computing to analyse satellite data
9 December - by David Lugmayer
At just 16, Cal Hewitt, a student at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in the United Kingdom became the youngest person to receive grid certification – giving him access to huge grid-computing resources. Hewitt uses these resources to help analyse data from the LUCID satellite detector, which a team of students from the school launched into space last year.
Night shift in the CMS Control Room (Photo: Andrés Delannoy).On Seagull Soup and Coffee Deficiency: Night Shift at CMS
8 December – CMS Collaboration
More than half a year, a school trip to CERN, and a round of 13 TeV collisions later, the week-long internship we completed at CMS over Easter is still the most awe-inspiring experience of our lives so far. After almost a year of email exchanges with Dave Barney, then project manager for ECAL at CMS, the initial excitement of our placement seemed to become buried further and further under piles of administration. The idea that we were ever actually going to get there still felt like a dream (we’re lying, neither of us could sleep for about a week before).
A mysterious ridge effect
2 December – LHCb Collaboration
The LHCb collaboration has submitted a paper reporting the study of correlations in particle production in proton-lead ion collisions at the LHC. The plots showing the angular distribution of these correlations (see on the right) exhibit features similar to a “ridge” in a mountain landscape. Therefore physicists name this kind of analysis a study of a “ridge effect”.
Breaking the rules: TEDxCERN 2015 videos now live
1 December – by Abha Eli Phoboo
Videos of talks presented at TEDxCERN 2015 are now online. The event, held on 9 October in the CMS Assembly Hall at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, was attended by around 600 people. Around 4000 followed the live webcast with 22 institutes around the world hosting their own TEDxCERN viewing parties.
The Racetrack Model Coil test magnet.Test racetrack dipole magnet produces record 16 Tesla field
27 November – by Harriet Jarlett
A new world record has been broken by the CERN magnet group when their racetrack test magnet produced a 16.2 tesla (16.2T) peak field – nearly twice that produced by the current LHC dipoles and the highest ever for a dipole magnet of this configuration. The Racetrack Model Coil (RMC) is one of several demonstration test magnets being built by the group to understand and develop new technologies, which are vital for future accelerators.
