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CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

CERN, founded in 1954, is a European organization for nuclear research. With a budget of around 1000 MCHF/year, CERN's mission is to build particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful instrument ever built. Norway has been involved in construction tasks for the ATLAS and ALICE experiments and has contributed to technology development. The Norwegian involvement also includes astroparticle physics, grid computing, and advancements in magnet technology and medical imaging.

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CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

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  1. CERNEuropean Organization for Nuclear Research • Founded in 1954 by 12 countries – Norway one of them • Today: 20 member states, around 2500 staff – around 15 from Norway (too few), plus fellows and technical students • More than 8000 users from all over the world – around 100-120 from Norway - reasonable • ~1000 MCHF / Year budget – Norway pay around 2% 2004: The 20 member states

  2. HEP in Norway Red: Universities (offering everything up through Ph.D) – Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim Blue: University Colleges currently involved at CERN (offering up through master), some also involved in the ATLAS/ALICE experiment – and all technical students

  3. CERN's mission: to build particle accelerators The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate particles properties. • Four gigantic underground caverns to host the huge detectors • The highest energy of any accelerator in the world • The most intense beams of colliding particles • It will operate at a temperature colder than outer space

  4. 4th ATLAS Physics Workshop Athens, May 2003 Speakers age distribution of 103 (of the 104) talks 28 female and 76 male speakers

  5. CERN 2nd site SPS accelerator CERN main site LHC accelerator LEP earlier Geneva Airport Norway at CERN • Norway at CERN (the last 20 years): • At LEP the effort was focused on DELPHI and some fixed target experiments (for heavy ion studies) • For LHC Norway participate in ATLAS and ALICE, taking on important construction tasks in both (silicon detector systems, calorimeter modules, trigger and readout electronics and cryogenic tasks) • Norwegian/Nordic effort to prepare computing facilities for data analysis

  6. LHC detector construction • The major technology activities at CERN last 8 years: • Construction of silicon modules for ATLAS (UiB, UiO) - Completed successfully • PHOS detector readout for ALICE (UiB, UiO) - Ongoing • High Level Trigger development for ALICE (UiB, UiO) - Ongoing • Construction of cryogenics tanks for ATLAS (NTNU, UiO, Industry) - Completed succesfully • RD50 (UiO, SINTEF) – R&D work for future detector systems - Ongoing

  7. New programmes 2006-2011 • Main goals: best possible science, more people to/involved at CERN, technology • contacts with projects and people. Organised in 3 approved projects: • (1) ATLAS and (2) ALICE: • Physics analysis, detector operation, pattern recognition software – mostly the experimental particle physics and heavy ions groups at UiB and UiO – in ATLAS and ALICE. Include also staff for Bergen and Gjøvik University Colleges. • Theory programs for the theoretical physicist but limited funding • Links to Norwegian part of Nordic GRID facility for data-analysis • (3) Instrumentation and technology: • Program related to R&D for new detector and electronics making use of new combined UiO and SINTEF facilities, a Technology Student program funded until 2011, Industry Liaison and Technology Transfer Officer, 1 FTE in CLIC development (and active at CERN). • In addition (outside CERN related funding) : • Astroparticle physics related to Planck and Gravitational lensing • Strengthen new and better involvement of the Norwegian low energy nuclear physics community at ISOLDE (radioactive beam) – funding not secured • GRID program for computing

  8. Technology andParticle Physics • Key technologies • Magnet technology and super conductive systems • Medical imaging and radiation treatment • Information technologies (WEB, GRID) - Grid is an emerging infrastructure that provides seamless access to computing power and data storage capacity distributed over the globe • Surface science and materials • etc • Norwegian involvement in this: • Technical students from Norway at CERN – today there are 10 Norwegians out of 120 in total • Industry Liaison and Technology Transfer activities • Norwegian Companies and Research Institutes • Physicists and engineers from Universities

  9. Accelerator and experiments, big objects

  10. Selection of 1 in 10,000,000,000,000 Proton/Proton collisions 1011 protons per bunch 25 ns Event rate in detectors : N  1,000,000,000 interactions/s Interesting hard events are rare  very powerful detectors needed     

  11. q,g q,g Higgs q, g q, g q, g q, g Sequence

  12. , p, K,… , p, K,… , p, K,… , p, K,…   Higgs Sequence !!!!!! Close to 109 p-p coll/sec !!!!! Gives H in this channel: 100/year

  13. Registration Tracks Energy

  14. Higgs signature at the LHC The two proton beams at the LHC will collide head-on 100 million times per second We expect only 1 Higgs in 1,000,000,000,000 events

  15. CERN, Internet and the WWW WWW

  16. The LHC Data Challenge The accelerator will be completed in 2008 and run for 10-15 years Experiments will produce about15 Million Gigabytes of data each year (about 20 million CDs!) LHC data analysis requires a computing power equivalent to ~100,000 of today's fastest PC processors Requires many cooperating computer centres, as CERN can only provide ~20% of the capacity Frédéric Hemmer, CERN, IT Department

  17. Solution: the Grid • The World Wide Web provides seamless access to information that is stored in many millions of different geographical locations • The Grid is an infrastructure that provides seamless access to computing power and data storage capacity distributed over the globe Frédéric Hemmer, CERN, IT Department Use the Grid to unite computing resources of particle physics institutes around the world

  18. The ATLAS Detector ATLAS superimposed to the 5 floors of building 40 Diameter 25 m Barrel toroid length 26 m End-cap end-wall chamber span 46 m Overall weight 7000 Tons

  19. The ATLAS Collaboration 36 Countries 165 Institutions 2000 Scientific Authors

  20. all 5 partial 4 6 3 2 8 1 9 16 10 11 15 14 12 13

  21. Silicon detector system (partly built in Norway)

  22. How does the Grid work? Frédéric Hemmer, CERN, IT Department It makes multiple computer centres look like a single system to the end-user Advanced software, called middleware, automatically finds the data the scientist needs, and the computing power to analyse it. Middleware balances the load on different resources.It also handles security, accounting, monitoring and much more.

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