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Volume 11 Number 3 11-3 June 2017 Periodical of S.V.A.T. Astatine 13- California Dreaming 24 - CrossFit® 32 - Women’s 30 - Green Team soccer Twente Contents Editorial Summer is approaching and life is going to happen to you. The “ATtentie” is the periodical of S.V.A.T. Astatine, which is issued four Fresh Recurring times a year. The ATtentie is distrib- You’ve probably noticed that uted among members of Astatine, sponsors of Astatine and employees 2 Colofon recently time has been acting connected to Advanced Technology at 13 California Dreaming strange. Not (necessarily) through the University of Twente. 10 Interview with James Yorick Birkhölzer substance or theory of relativity Volume 11 / Number 3 / Issue 47 but because of the sun. Spring Copies: 750 Seddon Date of issue: June 1st 2017 22 Advertorial ASML is the process by which work is Frank Esselink & Yannik slowly transformed into vacation. Editorial staff 24 CrossFit® Jasper Gerritsen • Editor in Chief, Wotte This process is very complex and Layout editor Jelle Slief manifests itself in many ways. Frank Esselink • Editor, Layout editor 20 Photo pages Kevin Rouwenhorst • Editor 30 Green Team Twente One example is the great influx of Daphne van Dijken • Editor scattered national holidays. One Jelle Slief • Editor 38 Cheerful Chef Yannik Wotte • Editor Sevim Aktas would almost think that Jesus and Zahra van Egdom his friends kept the seasons in Address 32 Women’s soccer S.V.A.T. Astatine 39 Puzzle mind while creating their legacy. t.a.v. ATtentie Kevin Rouwenhorst Also apparent is the scaling of this Post office box 217 7500 AE Enschede phenomenom of relaxation with Tel. 053-489 4450 intensity of sun. I do not wish to Bank: 1475.73.769 (Rabobank) [email protected] diminish the accomplishments of www.astatine.utwente.nl disciplined Southern-Europeans, Printer Astatine but let’s just say it’s quite clear the Inpakservice IJmond sun is inviting them to enjoy life. Tel. 0251-272 430 5 From the Astatine Board With liberation day we celebrate With thanks to the great amount of freedom we Yorick Birkhölzer • Jan Eggenkamp • Jan Eggenkamp Cristophe van der Walt • Roos de Vries have to do what we want, but I’d • Sevim Aktas • James Seddon • Zahra like to celebrate something more. van Egdom • Dave van As 6 Excursion to CERN Embrace not only the parts of your If you want to contribute to the next Christophe van der Walt & Roos existence which you can control ATtentie, you can send in articles via email: [email protected] de Vries but also the parts which you cannot. Authors remain responsible for the There is great beauty to be found contents of their works. 16 Astatiny The editors preserve the right to in surprise so let us celebrate the modify or reject received articles. 28 Batavierenrace on the sun and let life happen to us. © S.V.A.T. Astatine 2017, all rights reserved. motor cycle Jasper Gerritsen, Dave van As Editor in Chief p24 Astatine From the Astatine board Warning: the following in an opinion! your study, with or without some side projects, then get a job at a What is the company or university and move on goal of life? in life. I am not adventurous enough Most people to make these huge life decisions to Eggenkamp agree that be- just stop what you are doing. Main- ing happy ly, because I feel happy with what I Jan is the single am doing. Partly because AT gives us most impor- knowledge and structure in the way tant thing. But how do you achieve we work. We also need to be able to this? When I look around I feel that make, design, calculate something most know what makes them hap- and to understand how certain py, but somehow they manage to phenomena work. This could also not do these things. This is some- be done merely by self-study; the thing that fascinates me. I always material and internet explanations thought that people just do what are often present. Most of us do a they want. At least in Western Eu- lot besides our studies; committees, rope, as we have (more) freedom to own projects, sports or even boards. do so. There are many factors in- I truly enjoy the entrepreneurial volved that make people choosing spirit of AT students. There are so something else. Think about health, many good ideas lying around, of money, relationships. Technologi- which some get executed. We are cal developments can improve this good at seeing problems, solving greatly. Health science can partly them is way harder. solve the first objection. I am also very curious about the basic in- When encountering problems, we come, where you get a minimum should not become pessimistic amount of money each month and about the world. After all, we are the you do not have to do anything for ones who can change it. We can get it. I do not see the relationships part grumpy later in life, but not now. being solved, humans are very com- Now is the time to use our knowl- plex species (are we?) and figuring edge and change the world. Yes, we them out will happen sometime, but must be a bit naïve and idealistic. far from soon. But if we even give up trying now, what is your goal then? This is what I deeply appreciate people when I think is optimism. they make decisions that would scare me. Would you quit your study to achieve your goal? I think it is a safe and comfortable way to finish Zandraart.tumblr.com 5 Astatine Excursion to CERN Excursion to CERN Of spinny things, tiny things, and up this theory: synchrocyclotron is of synchronously cycling electrons measure: dark matter (not cute), or ries chucklesome nomenclature the longest word in the English dic- around if you cannot learn from antihydrogen (not cute), or hypo- V To eels, and the hovercrafts that contain tionary which ends in -tron. BAD the situation? The loop a particle thetical particles which might exist de them ASS. cycles through in each experiment in the center of the sun (not cute… is equipped with a variety of detec- hot). I did some research into these The European Organization for Nu- There are also many other trons tors. These detectors take careful acronyms, and, just like the syn- Roos clear Research, aptly abbreviated to be found at CERN, such as the measurements of the phenomena chrocyclotron, some of them have & to CERN, is world renowned for its Super Proton Synchrotron, the incited within the loop. The ATLAS a name which relates to their func- alt premier research in particle phys- Large Electron-Positron Collider, detector can note, for example, the tion. CLOUD, for example, explores W ics. Over the last 50 years, this 213 and the Antiproton Decelerator. position of subatomic particles that the potential link between galactic hectare lab has discovered new sub- The function of these devices can cascade away when particle beams cosmic rays and cloud formation. der atomic particles, new interactions be inferred from their names and collide. The type of cascade tells sci- Most of the abbreviations, however, between particles, and new meth- the explanation above. However, entists whether they are observing have probably just been added to van ods of measuring both. Each year when AT second year Roos de a normal particle collision, or some- make the devices they represent during the 7th module of AT, 2nd Vries asked experts at CERN why thing more extraordinary, such as, just a little more graspable. To give year students are given the oppor- the devices were named the way say, the Higgs Boson which was dis- an example: you would much rather tunity to visit the campus to learn they were, no one seemed to care covered in ATLAS. hear someone say, It took me years to about the physics and the accel- about etymology, much to her fix Alice, but I’m glad I did than It took Christophe erators developed there. Each year, disappointment. Experts responded: So why is the experiment called me years to renovate the N-A-61/ S-H-I- these students are puzzled by the It just sounds majestic. ATLAS? And why are there also ex- N-E, but I am glad the job is completed. strange names given to the curiosi- periments called EAGIS, ALICE, AL- ties which can be observed at CERN. An over-thinker would be tempted PHA, AWAKE, BASE, CAST, CLOUD, The realm of high energy physics to ask the following question: How COMPASS, DIRAC, ISOLDE, OSQAR, has some very interesting terminol- On the first day of the trip, students did the cult science fiction action and TOTEM? It seems rather coinci- ogy, most likely because the subject were introduced to one of the oldest adventure film Tron get its name? dental that all of these experiments delves to a point past reasonable, accelerators on the premises: the After all, the movie has little to do would have child-appropriate, easy intuitive imagination. This allows synchrocyclotron. This magnificent with microwaves or particle accel- to pronounce acronyms. Where are scientists to associate names with beast varies its electric field to ac- erators. A bit of research reveals the AMS, ASACUSA, ATRAP, CMS, somewhat more creativity and less celerate an electron around a loop, that the Tron licence belongs to Dis- LHCb, LHCf, MOEDAL, NA61/SHINE, justification than certain other by synchronising its field with a ney, which means the most prob- NA61, NA64, nTOF, and UA9s one is branches of physics.