CERN photo archives

5 October 2009

Screenshot of the CDS photo database homepage


This week’s Photo Gallery features a selection of some of the very best pictures from the ATLAS Experiment, hand-picked by ATLAS Outreach Officer Claudia Marcelloni. These images form part of over 1600 records, which can each hold up to 100 photos, and are available via the CERN CDS system for you to explore and use as you wish.

New images are constantly being added to the ATLAS Photos section, which has undergone a bit of an overhaul in recent months. Where before the system was difficult to navigate and only featured photos from the collaboration, it now includes official images from the CERN Photography Unit and is much more user friendly.

“The categories in the old system didn’t correspond very well to reality,” according to Claudia. Over several months, and with the help of ATLAS Technical Coordinator Marzio Nessi, ATLAS Management Assistant Martine Desnyder-Ivesdal, and IT expert Jerome Caffaro, the images have been re-arranged into eight new categories, some with multiple further sub-divisions.

Previously hard-to-locate items should now be easier to track down, such as an image of some TRT ‘daisy petal’ connectors (stored under Detector Construction – Inner Detector). Try hunting under Detector Installation – Full detector for pictures you might never have seen before. And, of course the latest high-profile visitors to ATLAS can be found in Visits and VIPs.

A new category has been created for Computer-Generated Images of ATLAS, and another for images depicting Working in ATLAS Under Collaboration, on all different aspects of the experiment. Finally, keep an eye on the DAQ and Trigger System collection, as a whole bunch of images which were produced during the compilation of the ATLAS book, Exploring the Mystery of Matter – are due to go up any day now.

 

 

 

Ceri Perkins

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