During A Virtual Visit to The Work Site Professors And Students at UoB Briefed on Practical Experiments in the “Giant Detector”

Sakhir – University of Bahrain – Mansoor Al-Wanni
29 November 2022
In cooperation with the Communications Office of CMS, the College of Information Technology at the University of Bahrain (UoB) organized a virtual visit, during which several UoB’s College of Information Technology professors and students were briefed on the scientific and engineering challenges being tested by the giant muon detector CMS.
The visit included a tour to the giant detector cavity, in which the experiments are carried out, at a depth of 100 meters below the surface of the earth, where the professors and students witnessed practical experiments on how effective the generated magnetic field is on the surrounding materials.
N addition, the professors and students were briefed on the computing systems used to process and store data resulting from the collision of protons.
While Ali Marzouq Jaafar, a postgraduate student in mechanical engineering, gave an explanation of the idea behind the giant detector and the practical method used to detect elementary particles.
A group of researchers accompanied the students on a tour of the detector’s control room, to follow up on the performance of the various parts of the detector.
The giant muon detector is one of the major physics experiments based at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, (CERN). The detector plays a similar role to a three-dimensional imaging camera of particles resulting from the collision of protons, as the Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to a high speed close to the speed of light, and then collides with them at the detector site to explore and study the elementary particles that make up matter. The virtual visit was moderated by Abdullah Ibrahim Sabah, PhD student in Computing and Information Sciences from the College of Information Technology at UoB.
It is noteworthy that UoB had joined the CMS experience in 2019 as an associate member, after which a number of joint projects between the university and CMS took place to exchange experiences and knowledge, and it recently manufactured a device that helps maintain the giant muon detector.

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