NOTE receives the prestigious ALICE Industrial Award
The CERN project ALICE is one of the approved experiments at CERN's new LHC accelerator. The aim of the experiment is to study nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and high density. "Under these conditions, we expect to recreate the conditions that existed about 1 microsecond after the creation of the universe in the Big Bang by colliding heavy atomic nuclei with each other at very high energies," says Hans-Åke Gustafsson, Vice President of the ALICE project and Professor at the Department of Experimental High Energy Physics at Lund University. "The information we get from analysing these collisions will not only contribute to our understanding of what happened at the beginning of the universe, but also what is happening", adds Hans-Åke Gustafsson.
Once the circuit boards have been installed on the detector at the LHC accelerator, it will be extremely difficult to access them for repairs. "This places huge demands on operational reliability, which means that assembly and testing must be done in a way that we can guarantee continuous operation over a 10-year period," says Magnus Persson, Sales Manager at NOTE Lund.
CERN is a European organisation based in Geneva that conducts research in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. As the world's largest particle physics laboratory, the organisation attracts scientists from all over the world. CERN's ALICE project is a collaborative effort between more than 80 different institutes, of which the Department of Experimental High Energy Physics in Lund is one. The total number of people involved in the project is about 1000 and the total cost of the project is about 800 MSEK. The accelerator is expected to be commissioned in autumn 2007.
For further information, please contact:
Magnus Persson, Sales Manager at NOTE Lund AB
Tel. 046 - 286 92 55, 0708 - 39 37 47
Hans-Åke Gustafsson, Vice President of the ALICE project and Professor at the Department of Experimental High Energy Physics at Lund University
Tel. +41-22-767 79 87, 0709-56 69 13