Microcosm (CERN)

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The central section of the UA1 experiment on display at the Microcosm museum

Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, near the town of Meyrin. It is a very comprehensive museum, covering a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN. Exhibits include:

• Explanations of the purpose of CERN and particle physics research in general
• A mock-up, hands-on version of Rutherford's gold foil experiment
• A real-time cosmic ray detector
• A mock-up of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel
• Models and explanations of current and future CERN experiments
• Equipment from old experiments, including a large part of the UA1 detector, which ran at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN from 1981 to 1984, and helped discover the W and Z bosons.

Microcosm garden

The Microcosm garden features several large components of old CERN experiments.

Image:Microcosm_Garden.jpg|The entire garden Image:Big_European_Bubble_Chamber.jpg|The Big European Bubble Chamber Image:LEP_RF.jpg|An RF cavity from the Large Electron-Positron Collider Image:Microcosm_initial_accelerator.jpg|Initial stages of an old particle accelerator

External link

• [CERN Microcosm Webpage]

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