Back to the Big Bang - Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Offered By: World Science Festival via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
John Hockenberry Introduction
What is the LHC?
Participant Introductions.
Where are we now with the LHC?
By smashing particles this creates a mini big bang?
What can the LHC do beyond Fermilab
How do you calculate the probability's that these particles are going to occur?
If you can create this mini big bang the energy changes are observable?
The search for the Higgs.
The standard model, Cosmological molasses, and Higgs.
How will you detect and confirm all of the predictions.
Departing form experimental evidence with super symmetry.
Are there places in space that have these particles?
Is there a limit to the number of particles you can expect?
Is there a possibility that the cosmological molasses is just a crutch?
The life of a LHC physicist.
Taught by
World Science Festival
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