The Large Hadron Collider

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The Large Hadron Collider

• Davids trip to CERN and what he saw there.

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Large particle accelerator
Lake Geneva
27km
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What is particle physics?
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• Einstein energy and mass are equivalent
• When things collide with high energy they produce
  particles
• Faster, heavier collisions have more energy and
  produce more massive particles

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Antimatter
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The Higgs boson
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Whos there?
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How?

• 10,000 physicist
• International
• Democratic
• 600 million per year
• 15 from UK

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Any use?

• www

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Webcam

• CMS webcam