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RE: Live from CERN - no more clouds in the LHC tunnel

in #science7 years ago

Really cool as always. Have you written in detail on how the various sensors actually work? I went back and couldn't find anything in your posts, but to me it's one of the more confounding parts of the whole enterprise - building the accelerator itself is one thing - but building the building sized devices that sense the results of the collisions - and how those work - is a total mystery to me.

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I have never written anything about the electronics of the machine, but I may consider it in the future as you asked about it. ~I could detail how a particle physics detector works in general. Maybe one day (I need to read a little bit about it as this is a bit far from my field) :)