Large hadron collider beams – made in Switzerland, monitored by Germans

Over 140 digitiser cards from Spectrum Instrumentation are being used to protection systems in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The needle-like particle beams within the LHC contain huge amounts of energy – 350MJ, about as much as the Flying Scotsman at full speed – and cannot simply be turned off. Instead, each is ...

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