Pictures of your lab (experimentalists & theoreticians)

In summary, the theorist's lab has high power lasers, optical tables, and all the equipment needed to run experiments. They also have pictures of their powerful computers.
  • #36
I would post a pic of my lab but I am a theoretician semi... so would a pencil and paper do
 
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  • #38
NoobixCube said:
I would post a pic of my lab but I am a theoretician semi... so would a pencil and paper do

As long as the pencil is some kind of high power laser and the paper is some human being :biggrin:
Think you can manage that?:-p
 
  • #41
Ivan Seeking said:
The Theoretician's lab
Half a brain?
 
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  • #43
Gokul43201 said:
Half a brain?

Well you know, they're very, very left brained.
 
  • #44
Gokul43201 said:
Half a brain?

Your entire lab is a corner?
 
  • #45
Ivan Seeking said:
Your entire lab is a corner?
Actually it's just the bottom half of the corner. I share that corner with another grad student - he has the top half, where he runs some kind of anti-gravity experiments.
 
  • #46
Gokul43201 said:
Actually it's just the bottom half of the corner. I share that corner with another grad student - he has the top half, where he runs some kind of anti-gravity experiments.

:smile: Okay, you got me.

Has the anti-gravity caused any problems, or is it well collimated?
 
  • #47
Heres my lab as promised!
 

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  • #49
George Jones said:
I am theoretician; here are my books.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5069/office2id7.th.jpg

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good." Samuel Johnson
Great tag line. I hope Isackson's 'Einstein' on the desk there was inclination. I certainly enjoyed it.
 
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  • #50
mheslep said:
Great tag line. I hope Isackson's 'Einstein' on the desk there was inclination. I certainly enjoyed it.

My wife and I both read it, and we both enjoyed it.
 
  • #51
George Jones said:
I am theoretician; here are my books.

Impressive collection. You are a considerably more advanced theoretician than NoobixCube... NoobixCube are you sure your not a primary school teacher? :-p
 
  • #53
n0_3sc said:
Here are some more pics. A friend is a good photographer and has an awesome camera so without revealing too much of our labs (a requirement) guess what these represent:

That's part of a laser system. We have a similar Ti-Sapphire laser from Spectra Physics with 2 YAG lasers going through a TSA.

Zz.
 
  • #54
Good job ZapperZ!
 
  • #55
n0_3sc said:
Good job ZapperZ!

OK, so now it's my turn. Identify the copper thingy with the tubes sticking out of it. :)

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1645/img5985ac0.jpg

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
OK, so now it's my turn. Identify the copper thingy with the tubes sticking out of it. :)

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1645/img5985ac0.jpg

Zz.
HTS. Entire rig some kind of particle collider.
 
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  • #57
That looks bloody awesome.
Yeah, my guess too is something to do with a particle accelerator/collider... The copper tubing is being cooled by whatever is flowing through those hoses...? I'm really curious as to what the whole setup is/does.
 
  • #58
After googling for "particle colliders" I'm taking a guess the rings are "Damping Rings" or an "RF Cavity"?
 
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ZapperZ said:
OK, so now it's my turn. Identify the copper thingy with the tubes sticking out of it. :)

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1645/img5985ac0.jpg

Zz.

Perpetual motion machine!
 
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n0_3sc said:
After googling for "particle colliders" I'm taking a guess the rings are "Damping Rings" or an "RF Cavity"?
Yes I am thinking you must be right, high power RF device requiring cooling. Scratch HTS.
 
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ZapperZ said:
OK, so now it's my turn. Identify the copper thingy with the tubes sticking out of it. :)

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1645/img5985ac0.jpg

Zz.

My guess is some particle measurments, using nitrogen cooling.:rolleyes:
Second thing might be research in the MHD generator area, but I don't see power connections as large as the machine suggest.
 
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  • #64
cool thread, makes me wish my lab wasnt horrible
 
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RonL said:
My guess is some particle measurments, using nitrogen cooling.:rolleyes:
I can't imagine any particle experiments/measurements utilising large solid copper rings that are held at a temperature...

Ok ZapperZ who was the closest?
 
  • #66
Cyrus said:
Perpetual motion machine!

No way, dude. That's a time machine!
 
  • #67
Math Is Hard said:
No way, dude. That's a time machine!

That doesn't look like a phone booth to me...whoaaa
 
  • #68
Cyrus said:
That doesn't look like a phone booth to me...whoaaa
HAHA Cyrus' Lab:
http://www.thackershirtcompany.com/images/PhoneBooth.jpg
 
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The picture that I posted is a section of our linear accelerator. It is typically called a "linac tank". It is an accelerating structure consisting of a series of iris-loaded copper cavities that are powered by a 1.3 GHz rf in a TM01 mode. Electron bunches gain an average of 10 MeV of energy after passing through this linac tank.

The hoses are water lines connected to a closed-loop chiller. During operation, the linac must be kept at the optimum, constant temperature. A single degree variation will cause the linac to detune it's resonance frequency and will not be able to efficiently sustain the 1.3 GHz rf.

Zz.
 

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