Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Hello, I am a X Standard student doing a Sceince Project with Seven other Students of the same Standard. After a lot of research we decided to make a model on LHC(Large Hadron Collider). I want to ask whether we can make a Working Model on it or not. Can, you Please give us some idea how to make a model on LHC and also Whether according to you it will be a nice and informative model or it will be a High-Level model for us?

Thanks in Advance.

The CERN LHC is funded by several countries with a very large multi-year budget and involves lots of specialized detectors with many tens to hundreds of man years of efforts in each one. If you go back to smaller scale working apparatus (what physicists were using prior to 1950's in terms of partical accelerators and detectors), they were a couple of floors underground and the size of large building and had tens of man years of efforts in the facilities and detectors. Even if you go back to what was in use in the 1920's in high energy physics investigations, the energy levels are above what is safe to demonstrate at a science fair.

Unless you can work directly under experts at a university that has a high energy physics lab, you shouldn't be attempting a working model of any high-energy physics apparatus. Even high energy electron acceleration at the voltages used in Cathode Ray displays can produce harmful X-Rays if the apparatus isn't designed properly.

You either need to choose a different topic if you want a working apparatus and be able to perform a real scientific investigation or be content with a non-working model and do a literature review project instead.

I want to make a Model not a working one . Please help.

What do you need help with? If you put "CERN LHC" into a search engine, you will get lots of hits on information about the project. Some of these have diagrams of the basic facility. If you are after information about how people build models, you can find articles if you put "building models" into a search engine and look at the ones that deal with architectural models.