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At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.
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Are you a motivated technician in the field of electronics who is passionate about building, maintaining and testing the complex electronics required to operate accelerators at the high energy frontier? Take Part!
The assembled BGI Beam profile monitor before its installation in the Proton Synchrotron (Image: CERN)
To answer the thorny question of how to monitor a particle beam that threatens to destroy any device that dares cross its path, scientists and engineers from the 1960s came up with a brilliantly simple solution. To collect information about the beam’s size and position, they built a device that detected traces of the few particles that are left in the vacuum of the beam pipe and ionised by the accelerated beam. 60 years later, a team led by James Storey (leader of the Experimental Areas, Electron Beam, Ionisation and Inelastic Collision Profile Monitors section in the Beam Instrumentation group) revived this concept and boosted it with cutting-edge CERN technology. The installation of this new high-resolution beam monitor in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) last month further prepares this venerable LHC injector for future runs and the High-Luminosity LHC