From CERN updates, 4 June 2014
There is a blue glow coming from Hall 300 on CERN's Meyrin site. Inside, a 3D projection system is giving the laboratory's first accelerator, the Synchrocyclotron (SC), a new lease of life.
When it was built in 1957, the SC was the highest energy particle accelerator in Europe, and in its 33 years of service it characterized many important physics results, such as the disintegration of the pion. The SC was shut down in 1990 and has lain dormant since.
Now the CERN Education and Radiation Protection groups are jointly overseeing an extensive refurbishment project to turn the SC into a new exhibition point for visitors.
"You enter the hall through the time tunnel," explains Bernard Pellequer who, together with Rolf Landua and Marco Silari is heading the project. "On the walls, timelines go back to the foundation of CERN and beyond, showing important moments in CERN history." Read more >>
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