Tourist @ Fermilab

So far I have taken part in two summer student tours on the Fermilab site: the Grid Computing Center and the LINAC (linear accelerator). Here you can see the beginning of the LINAC and the control room.


Have a closer look at the weather forecasting in the upper left corner indicating thunderstorms that were coming closer. Indeed, in the afternoon a warning was given through all loudspeakers not to leave the building now. Some minutes later, a heavy rain and storm started. At least at this moment I did not intend to go home since there was a very interesting talk about new results from Higgs searches at CDF.
One day I went upstairs on the 15th floor and enjoyed a good view over the Fermilab site. To the south west we can see the end of the LINAC before the particles enter the booster. The Tevatron ring has a radius of 6.5 km.


To the north east side we see the Feynman Computing Center, the CDF experiment and a beautiful rainbow over the prairie! To put all this together, here you have an overview - but it is a model, not a real photo. I also marked the village and where I live.

Finally, let me proudly present a picture I took from the plane to California: I spotted the Fermilab main building and the Tevatron ring from above!