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Talking Engineering Online: Mystery of the Crab Cavity

Online talk

  • Thu 22 Oct 2026
  • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Online
Register by: 22nd October 2026

Discover how engineers, technicians and scientists at Daresbury Laboratory are building one of the key technologies, crab cavities, to upgrade the world’s greatest machine.  

In this Talking Science webinar on engineering, you’ll discover how crab cavity cryomodules will be used to increase the rate of collisions on Large Hadron Collider to try and unlock more secrets of the universe. Join us for a behind the scenes tour on how these high tech machines are built from start to finish, using cutting-edge tools and techniques. We will uncover the engineering challenges the team faces in making the world’s biggest machine even better. 

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