Vacuum technology will be crucial to the success of many large experiments of the future. Joe Herbert outlines some common challenges faced by scientists.
The LHC tunnel
The next generation of big-science experiments, such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and
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Joe Herbert is the head of vacuum science in ASTeC at Daresbury Laboratory Science and Technology Facilities Council (www.scitech.ac.uk).