By Kevin Hodur, Michigan Tech News
Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt for particles and seek to understand a fully unified theory of physics.
“The Tevatron was a proton-antiproton collider and the highest energy accelerator in the world until the LHC(Large Hadron Collider) at CERN (the European organization for nuclear research) came on,” says Todd Johnson, a Michigan Tech graduate and special projects specialist at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. “It was also the first superconducting synchrotron (a type of particle accelerator) and the largest application of superconducting technology in the world at the time. My position involved failure analysis and prevention, designing and building custom instrumentation where needed, many late night call-ins to deal with interesting problems and training the accelerator operators on Tevatron systems.”
Johnson’s work goes beyond the science at this facility, though. Fusing science and creativity, he crafts art from the energy of the Tevatron.
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Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt for particles and seek to understand a fully unified theory of physics.
“The Tevatron was a proton-antiproton collider and the highest energy accelerator in the world until the LHC(Large Hadron Collider) at CERN (the European organization for nuclear research) came on,” says Todd Johnson, a Michigan Tech graduate and special projects specialist at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. “It was also the first superconducting synchrotron (a type of particle accelerator) and the largest application of superconducting technology in the world at the time. My position involved failure analysis and prevention, designing and building custom instrumentation where needed, many late night call-ins to deal with interesting problems and training the accelerator operators on Tevatron systems.”
Johnson’s work goes beyond the science at this facility, though. Fusing science and creativity, he crafts art from the energy of the Tevatron.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE