{"id":1289,"date":"2015-07-06T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentsuccess-wds-dev.utk.edu\/honors\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:18:27","slug":"cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/2015\/07\/06\/cern\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP Student Reports from CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><div class=\"box-light card  tx brd-\"><p>The following excerpt was retrieved from the Chancellor&#8217;s Honors Program blog on July 7th, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/utchp.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the blog<\/a>\u00a0to see the full post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meg Stuart (Class of 2017, Physics) writes CHP about her summer experience at CERN with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.utk.edu\/rhip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics Group<\/a> at University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1291 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ConfinedSpace\" width=\"271\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace-768x1358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace-1200x2122.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/studentsuccess.utk.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/ConfinedSpace.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>Three years ago, during my first year at UT, I never would have thought that I would be spending three months living just outside of Geneva, Switzerland and working at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.web.cern.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">CERN<\/a>, but here I am. I have spent the last two busy, but amazing months working late nights working on hardware on the ALICE detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), digging through code to finalize plots for a method paper, and developing a new environment for reading out data from front-end electronics in the ALICE Time Projection Chamber.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my first month here, I took radiation training, rescue mask training, and confined space training in order to be able to go almost 10 stories underground to the ALICE cavern, where I climbed into the detector to troubleshoot hardware issues on the Electromagnetic Calorimeter. Access to the detector is very sporadic, so my working hours were often very long and unpredictable. Recently, I have started working on the Time Projection Chamber on tweaking a lightweight operating system to run it on microprocessors in the detector electronics. 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