Interview at Voxxed Days CERN: Physics at CERN
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CMS is the Compact Muon Solenoid, a general‑purpose detector that hunts muons and many other particles while ATLAS shares that broad role and ALICE and LHCb target quark‑gluon plasma and matter/antimatter questions. Protons come from hydrogen, ride a linear accelerator then a chain of boosters into the LHC reaching about >0.999999999c, and roughly 10,000 users collaborate on the experiments. The job described is writing control software for the electronics that perform data taking and interface with engineers and analysts.
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