Katrin Voss is Germany's new Large Hadron Collider communicator. She doesn't come from a science background so was excited to see the accelerator and detectors up close. She shared her first experience of visiting CERN with the readers of ILC NewsLine.
I started the Open Day at the ATLAS experiment. Although I had seen quite a few photographs of ATLAS before coming to CERN, I was amazed at the sheer size of the experiment. The information that 4 000 kilometres of cable had been installed in it is almost inconceivable for someone who has never had to do with particle accelerators. Equally interesting were the visit at the ATLAS control centre and the short 3D film about the construction work at ATLAS.
