6/11/2023 0 Comments Boson x patrticle![]() ![]() I also work with both the CMS and the Fermilab communications teams. I think, in 2023, where we’ve just gone through the learning experience of a global pandemic, which heavily curtailed our travel, and with sustainability as a key goal for the future, this is a really important effort, and it would be a first for LHC experiments, too. In essence, we could have US-CMS physicists taking CMS shifts without needing to travel very far. Between myself liaising from CERN and the team at the Fermilab, we are working on developing a new distributed operations model where we can use the ROC to support and complement the on-site operations at CERN. ![]() Fermilab has the CMS Remote Operations Centre, which is basically a secondary control room for CMS at Fermilab. One of the wonderful things about our experiment is that it has such a wide, international collaboration, and another part of my job is to work on developing this as an advantage on the operations side too. Some days are calm some days you’re working intensely with subdetector experts to help them while they troubleshoot something and some days you’re having to call the fire department because a bird has got itself stuck in the cavern! But it’s great because no matter what, you feel like you’re contributing in real time to the success of the experiment. I really enjoy the shifts because each day is different. The very first, critical step in the entire process of producing great physics results is being able to keep our detector running safely. When I am on shift at Point 5 where the CMS detector is located, I am basically the first human point of contact for all the detector hardware, as well as responsible for any people on site doing technical work or taking visitors underground. LHC Run 3 started last year, but all of the collisions the LHC will produce will be worthless if we don’t have our detector on and running in optimal condition to detect and measure the particles that come out of those collisions. We have this amazing, complex detector that thousands of people built over decades, and we want to be able to make sure we make the best use of it and get every exciting bit of physics we can out of it. Specifically, I am working on the communications and operations teams. Right now, I am working for Fermilab on the CMS experiment. That was one of the main reasons that I moved over to Fermilab. ![]() with ATLAS.Īfter my postdoc, I just wanted a bit of a change and to do more of the outreach and public engagement side of things, which I really enjoy. My advisor and I were the first two people from a South African university to join ATLAS, thanks to a collaboration with Kétévi Assamagan and others from Brookhaven. I did a master’s in South Africa on an experiment at Jefferson Lab’s Hall C, which is a fixed-target, high-energy nuclear physics experiment rather than a particle physics collider experiment. So much of my career has been being in the right place at the right time: people asking, “Oh, would you like to do this?” and me saying, “Yes, that that sounds like a lot of fun! Let’s go do that!” But I’ve been based here at CERN in Switzerland since the summer of 2011. on the ATLAS experiment, then I did a postdoc with Brookhaven National Laboratory. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory?Īlmost three years. Claire Lee inside the CERN LHC tunnel at Point 4 where protons are given a kick of speed. ![]()
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