CERN | My story<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” el_class=”container”][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1624433902567{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 16px !important;}” el_class=”centrum-niebieskie”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner el_class=”foto”]\r\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1624438846096{border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #eaeaea !important;}”]\r\n BARTOSZ \u0141YSAKOWSKI, MSc Eng.<\/strong><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1625823552090{border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #9b132a !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”]<\/p>\n And it happened, I crossed the gates of CERN, and I was delighted and amazed at the same time. As an incorrigible and unreformable idealistic dreamer, I expected almost futuristic SF. My adventure with CERN continues. “May the Adventure and Physics last!”<\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1624516553425{background-color: #f5fcff !important;}”]\r\n Since elementary school, I have wanted to explore the world. First, chemistry was my great passion, and then in high school, I switched to history and archaeology. The whole thing changed during the choice of studies. Then, during one of the many fantasy conventions I have participated in, I went to the popular science panel led by both scientists and SF authors. From that moment on, I knew my goal was to become a physicist, moreover, a High Energy Physicist (to quote T. Pratchett, one of the participants of the panel).<\/p>\n From this, after all, pivotal convention, my adventure started, and it began rather quickly. In my freshman year, I met a sophomore student who drew me into a student research group and then into the Department of Nuclear Physics and Its Applications. I followed this path by creating beam detectors for the NA61\/SHINE experiment at CERN, which became the subject of my MSc thesis.<\/p>\n With such a thesis topic, it didn’t take long for me to visit CERN, a place I had dreamed about for years. I didn’t even mind the (at the time quite frightening) vision of spending many hours in a car with my thesis supervisor.<\/p>\n And it happened, I crossed the gates of CERN, and I was delighted and amazed at the same time. As an incorrigible and unreformable idealistic dreamer, I expected almost futuristic SF, but I got the most ordinary laboratory campus, but that\u2019s just a facade. There is a unique atmosphere at CERN; I always feel like I am in another world, and giving vent to my idealism, I feel as if this world is mine.<\/p>\n Well, enough of this sentimental excursion. I will not focus on the details of CERN’s life or work; this has been done for me by others in their texts written for this occasion. However, it is appropriate to briefly describe how it went on with me, so I may have lied a bit when writing the beginning of this paragraph.<\/p>\n NA61\/SHINE is a medium-sized experiment located in the North Area, on the French side of the border. It comprises specialists and extraordinarily brilliant people, both in “social” and knowledge understanding. As a newcomer to the experiment, I was recieved a warm welcome and they explained to me exactly what goes on and how things work. I must have made a good impression because on my second visit (less than a month later), I got a shift at the experiment without senior supervision.<\/p>\n In addition to the “training”, quotation marks substitute for explaining how spontaneous these events were, there was also the work and detector testing I needed for my engineering thesis. It wasn’t easy. At first, my thesis supervisor and I were crawling around looking for cables on the floor to plug our detector in. Then it didn’t get any easier. I was given an oscilloscope and the task of collecting a spectrum. The problem was that I had had an oscilloscope maybe three times in my hand, and this one was digital, not like the analogue ones from the student’s laboratory. But according to the principle: “What, I can’t do it?!” I managed to configure it, unfortunately not without a bit of help, and thus collect the data I needed for analysis.<\/p>\n During this trip and the next, I still helped with the day-to-day work of the experiment and participated in the data collection shifts. I indeed came back from this trip much wiser and even more passionate about my work.<\/p>\n My adventure with CERN continues. Now, during my PhD, I analyze data from collisions and continue to help with technical work. I still intend to go there and continue my adventure with the facility and research conducted there. I will allow myself to conclude with my own aphorism. “May the Adventure and Physics last!”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” el_class=”container”][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1624433902567{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 16px !important;}” el_class=”centrum-niebieskie”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner el_class=”foto”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1624438846096{border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #eaeaea !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1625823552090{border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #9b132a !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”] And it happened, I crossed the gates of CERN, and I was delighted and amazed at the same time. 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