Set up of a Faraday cage inside our experimental setup

From the 24th to the 28th October, the lightning team of the LMU welcomed Stefano Alois and Dr. Jon Merrison from Aahrus University. These two specialists of electrification installed a Faraday cage inside our experimental setup. A Faraday cage is a metallic cage electrically insulating what it contains. Measuring its voltage allows to estimate thetotal charges entering the set-up, and to visualize the discharges. Meanwhile flashes were observed with high-speedcameras. In one week, we achieved 24 experiments, most of them displaying lightning! Results will be further analyzed inAarhus and Munich.