Photonics.com:
American artist Josef Kristofoletti has created a
three-story-tall
mural of the ATLAS particle detector at
CERN’s
Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The mural, which is one-third the
size of the actual detector, is located aboveground at the
ATLAS experiment site, while ATLAS itself is in a cavern 100
meters below. The artist was inspired to produce the large work
when he visited the detector; he was invited there by ATLAS
collaboration members who had seen his smaller painting of it.
“We were thrilled to learn that ATLAS and particle
physics had found their way into popular art,” said
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist Michael
Barnett, an ATLAS outreach coordinator. Because CERN and the
LHC have attracted considerable interest from the artistic
community over the years, the laboratory is developing an
artist-in-residence program.
Credit: CERN Photolab
