The ATLAS group at University of Oslo has just finished building their ATLAS brick model and documented it with a very nice time-lapse movie.
After members of the group already helped with the sorting of the pieces at CERN, now students as well as professors took part in the construction of the model in Oslo. Though the group has experience in manufacturing parts of the actual ATLAS detector, building the 50:1 scale model still took more than 30 man hours in total.
From 17 October 2014 to 19 July 2015 the Palais de la Découverte will host the very successful ‘Collider’ exhibition.
It was previously shown in the Science Museum in London and is currently hosted at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester.
For the exhibition in Paris we’ll be shipping one of the large ATLAS models to be part of the exhibition.
This wraps up the five day event in roughly two minutes … nothing more to say!
… well, in case you want, find out more on the event web site.
Last Friday, as a kind of culmination of the ATLAS LEGO Challenge, we got Prof. François Englert to par with Prof. Peter Higgs to sign a piece of the large ATLAS LEGO model. Both signed pieces will be displayed in the ATLAS Visitors Center once the new casing is fully set up. Pass by to have a look for yourself. You can book visits with the CERN Visitors Service and/or the ATLAS secretariat.
About 250.000 pieces, of 201 different types, weighing about 350 kilograms, filled (in fact still are) up a meeting at CERN this week. The latest order of 23 large ATLAS LEGO models came in one big delivery and needed some serious sorting, packing and whatnot. For more than 20 volunteers the task was to 1) find unsorted bags/pieces, 2) divide them into 23 piles, 3) deal with the missing pieces (or those we have too many), 4) fill them into new bags and 23 boxes and 5) proceed to the next type.
We spent several early mornings and late evenings, many of us even a couple of hours during the days and should be ready to ship the models to their institutes by next week. By then there will be 59 large models out in the open. See the stats page for more details.
It’s been quite a social and event as well and we would like to thank everybody who took part in this adventure!!!
I hope the institutes will enjoy building their models and appreciate the work that went into the latest order.
We expect to see some nice coverage about the use of the models at their final locations and certainly have some nice ideas for 2014 on our side … stay tuned!
