Two major open days this spring
CERN will be organising two Open Days in April 2008, one for CERN employees and their families from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, 5 April, and another for the general public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, 6 April.
Most of the access points will be open during the open days .
This is the one last chance to see the LHC and its experiments. In addition to visiting the surface facilities, visitors will be able to go underground to see the accelerator and will have access to the experiment caverns. Exceptionally, most of the points around the ring will be open.
Saturday, 5 April 2008
Visit for all members of the CERN personnel and their families
For the first and last time before the start-up of the LHC, CERN is inviting all members of the Laboratory’s personnel and their families to go underground to visit the LHC. So make a note in your diaries of the date of Saturday, 5 April 2008, the day before the Open Day for the general public. For those of you who have not already visited the LHC, this will be the last opportunity for you and your families to see the world’s most powerful particle accelerator (27 km in circumference) before it goes into service during 2008. The LHC will accelerate minute particles and collide them at the centre of four large detectors, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This unique world-leading scientific tool will be visible at most of the access points in the Pays de Gex and Meyrin (further information will be provided on the following website in due course: http://www.cern.ch/lhc2008). As all the access points are of equal interest, you are strongly advised to visit the one closest to where you live.
Programme for CERN members
The kick-off for this special Open Day reserved for members of the CERN personnel will be given at 9 a.m. by an official CERN delegation together with the mayors and deputy mayors of each commune. An LHC component will be symbolically unveiled in a public area.
At 9.30 a.m. the mayors will inaugurate the visit itineraries at the various LHC points.
Photo taken at CERN’s 50th anniversary (CERN-EM-0410023_05).
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. visits by members of the CERN personnel and their families (on presentation of the CERN access card).
Visits by members of the CERN personnel and their families down into the tunnel and the detector caverns at the LHC points. Special activities are planned for the youngest visitors.
The success of these two exceptional days depends on you. We invite as many of you as possible to sign up as volunteers!
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