Main station guide:
Dave Barney
Originally from the UK, Dave joined the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1993. He helped design, build and operate the 14000-tonne CMS detector that studies collisions between sub-atomic particles provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These collisions recreate the conditions of the early Universe, effectively allowing us to explore through both space and time the history of our Universe. CMS came online in 2010 and, just a couple of years later, found evidence for a new particle – the Higgs boson – that helps us understand why our Universe exists at all. After a 2-year hiatus, the LHC will restart in 2015 providing higher-energy collisions that will allow scientists to boldly explore where no scientist has gone before…. In addition to his Project Manager role at CMS, Dave has appeared on many television documentaries and has led the International Particle Physics Outreach Group, bringing the wonders of particle physics into classrooms around the world.
Mobile station guide:
Tom Perry
Tom is a fifth-year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin studying particle physics and has been located out at CERN since 2012. He works on the Level-One trigger system, the system responsible for making the initial decisions about what data to keep to be later analyzed by the entire CMS collaboration, and is using the new data coming in to search for Dark Matter. He’s excited by all the new upgrades to the CMS detector that been made during the past two years and sometimes even sings about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1AF7GwAxfI
Technical Support Team:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
