You can actually visit many CERN sites with Google Street View:
CMS: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-...
Atlas: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-...
Alice: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-...
LHC: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-...
LHCb: https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-...
On the last image on the last page there's image of some copper devices with a description:
> These strange copper devices help take electric energy and convert it into kinetic energy of particles.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't that just a fancy way of saying that it is a motor or some kind of pump?
> when the LHC runs, the chambers housing the detectors experience intense radiation
I thought that it was very energetic but low intensity radiation (outside the main tunnel). Does anyone have more data about this? How many "normal radiography" equivalents do you get for standing there for a minute?