An EU-funded doctoral training network at CERN has improved their ability to accurately align accelerator components. This should improve the efficiency of future accelerator experiments, both in the Large Hardon Collider and its successor.
Particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, represent the pinnacle of achievement in science, but also require the most advanced precision engineering. CERN is studying a new collider, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), and as part of these studies, it has set up an EU-funded doctoral training network, PACMAN, to solve some of the technical metrology challenges posed in aligning accelerator components with micrometric precision.
Further details: Getting it straight for aligning accelerator components