Anatomy of a Detector-Webcast

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Joe Boudreau, a physicist in the CDF collaboration, uses a virtual reality tool to show the different parts of the detector and how they are used to display the debris from a collision. You may play the video in a separate window with your RealMedia player, look at it embedded in a web page, peruse the keyframes of the video below, or read the illustrated script of the video. Use Firefox on a Macintosh; Safari no longer displays the video properly. It is also available on CD-Rom from the Teacher Resource Center at Fermilab.

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Accelerator Complex at Fermilab with DØ and CDF Detectors	Proton about to collide with antiproton	Artist's version of an event with debris from collision	Particle offspring of top-antitop pair
Snapshot of event by DØ detector	3D model of DØ detector	Particle offspring identified in event data	The CDF Detector
Joe Boudreau with the virtual detector on screen	The CDF detector measures physical properties.	Two detector types: Calorimeter and Trackers	Silicon Vertex Detector (SVX) inside and Outer Tracker in pink
SVX Segment	Magnetic field bends charged particles.	Calorimeter (dark blue): Alternating layers of metal and electronic detectors	Calorimeter cell: Electromagnetic (red) Hadronic (blue)
Muon Tracker (gray)	Event Display: strip detectors (turquoise) and outer tracker (pink)	Event Display: Outer Tracker (pink) (looks purplish here)	Tracks in Event Display
This streamed program was produced by graduate student Liubo Borissov with Joe Boudreau and the Fermilab Education Office and published by Fermilab's Visual Media Services.

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