Image: A graphic I used in my interview for my job as junior professor at Université Clermont Auvergne. It’s an adaptation of “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich, but I photoshopped out the fog in favour of the beautiful Chaîne des Puys which Clermont-Ferrand is nestled in. About a month ago,Continue reading “The ATLAS search community is coming to Clermont-Ferrand!”
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If Particle Physics were a railway, who would lay the track and who would drive the trains?
Image: LHC magnet being assembled. If Particle Physics were a railway, CERN would be in charge of laying and maintaining the tracks and signalling. Image © CERN. This weekend, I’ve been visiting some friends from my university days. While catching up, they asked me a question which I get a lot: are you still workingContinue reading “If Particle Physics were a railway, who would lay the track and who would drive the trains?”
What it takes to build a detector
Image: the High Granularity Timing Detector and where it will fit within ATLAS. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Last week, I travelled to Lyon to give an overview of the status of the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) upgrade project for the leaders of the IN2P3 (the French particle and nuclear physics institute). For each majorContinue reading “What it takes to build a detector”
Louie D. Corpe 