Description
Protons (and heavy ions) will be collided at unprecedented high energies to recreate and study states of matter believed to have been present a fraction of a nanosecond after the Big Bang.
The detectors for the experiments are arguably the most complex scientific instruments ever built. They are typically an order of magnitude larger and more complex than previous ones and have to operate in a very harsh environment created by hundreds of billions of particles produced every second, and to register with high accuracy the passage and energies of all these particles, thus demanding huge data collection, transfer and processing rates on a scale greater than ever previously attempted.
Speaker
Jim Virdee
(Spokesperson for the CMS collaboration)
