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Dr. Claire Lee
@Claire_Lee
Application Scientist at @Fermilab working on the @CMSexperiment at @CERN. Formerly @DUNEScience & @ATLASexperiment. #ADHD. (she/her). Muons are awesome.
Sep 10, 2020 • 11 tweets • 11 min read
12 years ago today on 10 September 2008, the world's largest particle accelerator, the #LHC, came online! In honour of this anniversary, today I present a thread of:

@MileyCyrus AS STAGES IN THE @CERN ACCELERATOR COMPLEX

It all starts with a simple bottle of hydrogen gas! Miley Cyrus in red dressRed hydrogen tankRed hydrogen bottle containing enough protons for 200'000 ye 2) The 86 meter long #Linac4 is the first accelerator in the chain! It takes negative hydrogen ions (a hydrogen atom with an additional electron) from the source and accelerates them up to 160 MeV!

Linac4 will replace the old Linac2 from next year.

home.cern/science/accele… Miley Cyrus in blue Emilio Pucci outfitCERN's new Linac4
Aug 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Y'all my mom just asked me what the "Higgs bosons decaying into muons interesting thing happening at @CERN" was all about on our family whatsapp chat! 😊 If you're interested in what I wrote back, read below!

1/9 So.... we have different types of particles that make up everything we know of in the universe. We have force particles (which we call bosons) and matter particles (called fermions).

2/9
(picture credit @symmetrymag)
Jun 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 10 min read
Since it's the last day of #PrideMonth, Twitter, may I present to you...

Lady Gaga as Particle Physics Experiments: A Thread.

First up is @ALICEexperiment, studying strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where a phase of matter called Quark-Gluon Plasma forms. Next we have Lady Gaga as the Antiproton Decelerator: a machine that produces a slow beam of antiprotons which can be combined with positrons to form antihydrogen atoms!

A number of experiments at @CERN use the AD to study #antimatter and its properties.
home.cern/science/accele…