Particle Physics Photowalk

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Photographers are invited to register to go behind the scenes at these participating laboratories:

CERN in Geneva, Switzerland
Tour description: Un autre regard. The LHC is almost a household name, so CERN has decided to show another side of the lab for the particle physics Photowalk. Photographers will have the chance to glimpse the future via visits to the laboratory's new linear accelerator, Linac 4, which will soon provide beams to the LHC. The CLIC facility, an innovative technology for accelerating particles to unprecedented energies, will be another stop on the tour. Photographers will also take a look at ongoing physics at the ISOLDE facility, where research ranges from medicine to astrophysics, and the AMS laboratory, where a particle detector destined to fly on the last-ever space shuttle mission is being prepared.
Number of invited photographers: 48
Contact: press.office@cern.ch
Website: http://www.cern.ch/photowalk2010

DESY in Hamburg, Germany
Tour description: Participants will be divided into small groups of 10 to 12 people, who will all be able to see every 'photo station.' Tour stops include an underground detector hall where the HERA B detector used to reside. Photographers will be able to see parts of the old detector and see where new detectors are being built and tested. Other 'photo stations' include: the HERA accelerator tunnel, an experiment control room and other test areas for the laboratory's detectors and accelerators.
Number of invited photographers: 60
Contact: Gerrit Hoerentrup, gerrit.hoerentrup@desy.de or Barbara Warmbein, barbara.warmbein@desy.de
Website: http://www.desy.de/photowalk

Fermilab in Illinois, USA
Tour description: Photographers will get a full morning of behind-the-scenes access to places not normally open to the public. They will have the opportunity to go underground into one of the accelerator tunnels, explore the antimatter factory and photograph some of the physics experimental facilities around the site.
Number of invited photographers: 50
Contact: Reidar Hahn, rhahn@fnal.gov
Website: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/photowalk/

KEK in Tsukuba, Japan
Tour description: Photographers will be divided into four groups and guided through the following research areas: Belle Linear Accelerator, Photon Factory, Advanced Test Facility, Superconducting RF Test Facility and the Cockcroft-Walton Accelerator.
Number of invited photographers: 40
Contact: Rika Takahashi, rika.takahashi@kek.jp
Website: http://www.kek.jp/ja/event/photowalk/

TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada
Tour description: Photographers will visit the world's largest cyclotron (built and operating at TRIUMF), the medical-isotope production area and Canada's second PET scanner, in addition to touring two experimental halls where scientists use beams of exotic isotopes to study the structure of nuclei and the origins of the chemical elements on Earth.
Number of invited photographers: 40
Contact: Tim Meyer, communications@triumf.ca
Website: http://www.triumf.ca/photowalk