Essentially, this equipment is a gas-powered machine gun capable of firing up to 50 small frozen pellets of deuterium fuel per second into the hot plasma (Image courtesy of EFDA-Jet)
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Schematic drawing of the ALPHA experiment: antiprotons are captured and held in ultrahigh vacuum using electric and magnetic fields. Mixing them with positrons, the antihydrogen atoms are formed and confined using an octupole magnetic trap and mirror coils
Schematic drawing of the ALPHA experiment: antiprotons are captured and held in ultrahigh vacuum using electric and magnetic fields. Mixing them with positrons, the antihydrogen atoms are formed and confined using an octupole magnetic trap and mirror coils (Image courtesy of CERN)
Artistic impression of the three human gut types
Artistic impression of the three human gut types (Image courtesy of EMBL / Petra Riedinger)
The control room at CERN, where winner Shree Bose hopes to visit
The control room at CERN, where winner Shree Bose hopes to visit (Image courtesy of CERN)
The instrument PF2, a powerful source of ultra-cold and very cold neutrons
The instrument PF2, a powerful source of ultra-cold and very cold neutrons (Image courtesy of ILL / Artechnique)
Sample stage (centre) and 2D detector (background) on ESRF beamline ID23, where the GPCR protein structures were determined
Sample stage (centre) and 2D detector (background) on ESRF beamline ID23, where the GPCR protein structures were determined (Image courtesy of P Ginter / ESRF)
The first interconnection of the LHC
View of the LHC accelerator in the tunnel (© 2005-2017 CERN)
LHCb ring imaging Cherenkov detector mirrors
The mirrors of one of the two Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors of the LHCb experiment are meticulously assembled in a clean room (© 2005-2017 CERN)
Closing CMS to hunt cosmic rays
Fish eye view of the CMS detector before being closed to measure cosmic rays (© 2006 CERN)
Installing the ATLAS calorimeter
View inside the ATLAS detector (© 2005-2017 CERN)