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WHAT IS CERN ?

WHAT IS CERN ?. CERN site: Next to Lake Geneva. Premier scientific laboratory in the World: Known for groundbreaking scientific discoveries and innovations like the world wide web.

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WHAT IS CERN ?

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  1. WHAT IS CERN ? CERN site:Next to Lake Geneva • Premier scientific laboratory in the World: Known for groundbreaking scientific discoveries and innovations like the world wide web. • Houses largest and most complex scientific machine ever built (- the Large Hadron Collider), which will enter into production in less than six months from the time of this talk. • Has over the last fifty years; fostered global scientific collaborations and knowledge transfer on scales that are unprecedented in all of science. • This talk describes the contribution and student training opportunities for the SA research community in this – the largest scientific enterprise since the Moon project. 1 Talk presented at DST: 20 March 2009

  2. The LHC Accelerator • LHC Facts: • 27 km • Depth varies from 50 to 175 m • Energy : 450 GeV to 7 TeV • >1200 superconducting magnets, max 8,36 Teslas ! • 24 Km of cryostats at 1,9 °K • 100T Liquid Helium Recycled daily • 60T Liquid Nitrogen daily

  3. ALICE Control Room LHC Control Room V0 hits on 10.9.2008, shortly after 9 am SPD hits on 10.9.2008, shortly after 9 am First beam 10thSeptember 2008

  4. UCT group 2004 Tromsø Bergen Dubna Heidelberg Cape Town Participation of SA in CERN • Cape Town in ALICE: currently 6 senior staff + several students • UCT joined 2001, became UCT-CERN research center in 2003 • iThemba Labs joined in2008 • Projects • Dimuon Arm: algorithms for online High Level Trigger (dHLT, commissioned in 2008) • Grid Computing: Computing Cluster integrated into ALICE GRID • Physics: Dimuon studies (acceptance, efficiency); W production in pp; .. • HLT data challenge: Nov. 2004 • Online test on ‘Grid’ ! • Test latency tolerance • Run stable for > 15 hours • Rate limited by bandwidth • IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.55:703,2008.

  5. The SA-CERN Program • SA CERN started as a consortium of researchers who had long standing research program with CERN • Modeled along the Australian, Indian and Brazilian programs. • Allows for central point of coordination and resource allocation. • Agreement was that iTL would act as a neutral institutional hosts for the SA-CERN program:

  6. High-level Engagement • Regular short/medium visits at CERN • Inter. Workshop on dimuon physics SA, 2004 • VIP visits • Minister Mangena(S&T), June 005 • Dr Mjwara (DG DST), July 2007 • M. Shuttleworth, Feb. 2007 SA team in ALICE, 2007 Minister M. Mangena, June 2005

  7. SA could be a potential Gateway to allow access for the continent to CERN

  8. Constructing the PhD pipeline • One important NRF strategic objective - PhD as driver (also post-docs and academic expertise) • Foundation for everything we want to achieve in the National System of Innovation • How does our PhD’s pipeline measure up?

  9. PhD production profiles

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