The GISMO project
William G. Atwood, A. Breakstone, D. Britton, T. Burnett, David Myers, G.B. Word · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1993
_ .-.I6 the quest to understand the fundamental structure of the universe, high-energy particle physicists smash together subatomic particles at a handful of accelerator complexes around the world. The enormous energy and the grand size of these machines, such as the 27 km circumference Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider in Geneva, or the 83 km circumference Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) under construction in Texas, contrasts with the tiny scales on which matter is being probed. These machines are designed to examine distances as small as lo-l6 centimeters and to investigate particles that live for only a picosecond or less before decaying. These scales are far beyond the perception of the unaided senses so the particle physicist must rely heavily on computers to design, control, simulate, and interpret such experiments. Su@nitted to C++ Report