Group shot outside the Cyrogenic Test Facility

CERN: January 2020

2nd February 2020

CERN has been a place of pilgrimage for scientists from around the world since 1954 and, more recently, they have been joined by artists. A group of over twenty MAAS colleagues were privileged to spend four days in the company of our hosts, Michael Hoch and Andy Charalambous, exploring the site of the vast and the minuscule. We are grateful to them and to all the others who supported them in making the trip such a success!

...and part of the exhibition inside — …and part of the ‘Star Trek’ exhibition inside

It’s not all high tech though. A gift from the Indian government

Michael leads us down 100m to the Compact Muon Solonoid Detector (CMS)

The bank of detectors surrounding the LHC where protons collide

Andy has been associated with CERN for many years. Here he poses with his work at the CMS site

Our visit was rounded off with a performance riffing on science vs belief at the IdeasSquare

All photographs by graduate © Phil Barton, 2020

And the last word goes to Molly Mcleod responding to the trip in words and images:

Breath holding, brain drain.

Is a particle an object or an event? Your perception does not effect their behaviour.

Contact inhibition, vague but exciting.

Strip away the layers to find the primordial mass.

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