How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island (NY) to Batavia (IL)?

Find out at this presentation by a speaker from Fermilab, who will discuss this exciting project which studies the properties of muons, subatomic particles that only live 2.2 millionths of a second.

Moving this "ring" is a massive undertaking, involving loading it onto a barge, bringing it down the east coast, around the tip of Florida, and up a series of rivers to Illinois. Once it arrives in Lemont, it will be attached to a specially-built truck and driven to Fermilab, traveling over two consecutive nights and using rolling roadblocks to temporarily close sections of the roads. This will be traveling through Woodridge in late July or early August.

Join us and learn about science in the making!