Asfyon at Cern

Trip to  CERN
[Under auspices of ASFYON]

In search for the holy grail of physics

Introduction

The most impressive research centre in the field of fundament physics is located at CERN [ European Organization for Nuclear Research ] near Geneve. Thousands of scientists from all over the world work together to achieve the most difficult challenge in finding the "holy grail" of theoretical physics.
Deep under the Jurra massif close to Geneva lies a 27 km long circular tunnel, where protons are accelerated to huge energies, i.e., 14 TeV, in order to smash on each other. The resulting collisions simulate a fraction of a second the situation just after  the big bang.  At this period of the evolution of our universe, very mysterious particles and topological object could exist. The law of physics would have a marvelous simple structure. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the research  center  CERN will detect  eventually  events out of the vacuum which could support a theory of everything (TOE). The detector ATLAS ( and  the CMS) was build  to do this job.

De trip

Twee maal per jaar wordt er een reis georganiseerd naar Cern ( april- oktober). Het hoogtepunt is dan een bezoek aan het laboratorium.

PROGRAM

Thursday:  15:00  Train departure at Hilversum  to Schiphol

                 19:00  Check in hotel: Stars Geneve airport

Friday:      10:30   Departure to CERN with bus 
                          Visit of the “Globe”-exposition
                          Visit of  MICROCOSM
                  12:30  lunch
                  14:00-17:00  CERN visit
                          Evening: Visit old city Geneve

Saturday :     Visit museum of antique  devices and museum of natural history.
                    16:30  deparure to airport.

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