40K views · 1.1K reactions |  Did you ever want to make your own particle detector? Here is your chance! Build this low-cost open hardware project, investigate natural radioactivity around you and become a true citizen scientist: https://scoollab.web.cern.ch/diy-particle-detector | CERN | Facebook

Can you guess the particle detector? Hint: this detector is built around a huge solenoid magnet. 😉 Join us at #CERNScienceGateway to discover all our particle accelerators through interactive exhibitions just like this one. Here we see the open detector of the CMS Experiment at CERN, one of the general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (#LHC). The experiment has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the #StandardModel (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dim