As I was writing a talk for a conference, I ran into a bunch of pictures of ALICE that I thought y’all might like to see. In my last post I gave an overview of ALICE and described each of the subsystems in ALICE. I don’t have a picture of every subsystem, but to give you an idea of what these pieces look like:
This is the ALICE magnet (which used to be the L3 magnet) in 2001, before any of the detectors were installed inside of it.
This is the hole inside the TPC where the ITS sits now
This is the whole ITS when it was being installed
Here you can see the PMD team in front of the PMD
This shows the PMD after it was installed in ALICE
Here you can see piece of the TRD right before it was installed
This is the HMPID right before it was installed
This is one of the trays of the TOF
And here you can see one of the EMCal supermodels right before it was installed
And this is the ALICE collaboration in front of ALICE
(Note to ALICE collaborators – if you didn’t see a picture of your favorite subsystem, email it to me. If I get enough cool ALICE pictures for another post, I’ll do a follow up with more gratuitous cool pictures of ALICE.)
Tags: ALICE, detector, heavy ion physics
Thanks for all of these really great photos. There are currently 5715 “crunchers” on 7730 personal computers still attached to the LHC@home project. That is out of 86,277, the total number of people who ever crunched for the project.
I am sure that I am not the only one who has found your blog, and loves it.
So, please, thanks for the pics, now please explain to us all of the acronyms you used, I for one would really appreciate it.
Or, if there is a web page which translates acronyms into their full titles, that would be great.
If you check my blog, sciencesprings-dot-wordpress-dot-com
(avoiding URLS to avoid spam filters, so put back the dots where they belong) somewhere down the line, some of these photos may show up.
Hi Richard – if you look at the link at the top to my last post, I explain each of the subsystems (which are the acronyms) and what they do
Christine, I indicated that I have a blog, ScienceSprings, the link I put in to this post. This blog is dedicated to raising the visibility of the US contribution to scientific research world wide, both people and material.
I read your bio. You would be a perfect subject of a blog post. I have done a fair amount with what I find at D.O.E. supported labs, Brookhaven, Berkeley, etc. I would like to do something on a real live scientist. You woulds be perfect.
But, I would never do anything without permission. I would simply quote waht you have said, grab the photo if I can, add a bit of patter, use some CERN and US/LHC graphics, a shot of ALICE, etc.
You can let me know.
Thanks.