A rainbow in a box & the ATLAS detector?! | CERN-Solvay Education

What is the link between a rainbow in a box & the ATLAS detector at CERN?

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the CERN-Solvay Education Programme, we talk about invisible photons. Proton collisions create all sorts of particles, such as the Higgs boson.
These photons are so high in energy that our eyes cannot see them. Special instruments, called electromagnetic calorimeters (EMCALs), are needed to catch them in our detectors.
In this video, we have a look at the @ATLASexperiment EMCAL, while we build our own version of a detector for the sort of photons our eyes cannot see: photons in the infrared. We use a prism to split the light of the sun into its various colours and, using heat-sensitive paper, reveal the presence of infrared radiation right below the red band of the rainbow.

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[_tnk_]

I absolutely love this format from CERN. I finding myself eagerly anticipating the beat drop every time 😂

[kushagrasinha]

This background music is so soul soothing 😍😍😍

[bushrasharafuddheen]

Hello CERN, hope everything is going well.

[JustmeT]

Rainbow in a box WILL DESTROY YOU. Mark my words. Thanks 👌