Colliding Particles - Episode 7: Data

The 7th in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

We're back on the Eurostar as Jon, Gavin and Adam travel to the ICHEP conference in Paris for the announcement of first results from the LHC. It's the culmination of over 20 years work and the first step on the road to many years of new discoveries at the LHC.

Post-ICHEP, Gavin moves to Geneva, Adam finishes his PhD), and Jon continues the fight.

 
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Colliding Particles - Episode 6: Beam

The 6th in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

 'Beam' looks at the role of competition in science and joins the night shift on the CMS detector.

 
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Colliding Particles - Episode 5: Collidonomics

The fifth in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.

This episode looks at the issue of funding, has an update on the status of the ATLAS experiment, joins Gavin in the mountains, and continues to follow the progress of the 'Eurostar' idea within ATLAS.


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Colliding Particles - Episode 4: Problems

The fourth in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. 'Problems' travels to Paris for a look at some of the theoretical work behind the 'Eurostar' paper. Gavin and his PhD student Mathieu explore the mathematics behind the behaviour of fundamental particles, and we have an update on the 'incident' which is holding up work at the LHC.

 
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Colliding Particles - Episode 3: Conference Season

The third in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.

Visit the project website at collidingparticles.com.

Jon travels to Philadelphia to present the Eurostar paper to ICHEP. Held every 2 years, the International Conference on High Energy Physics is the most prestigious conference in particle physics, and brings together the worlds leading theorists and experimentalists for a week of discussions and sharing of ideas.


 
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Colliding Particles - Episode 2: Big Bang Day

The second in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.

Visit the project website at collidingparticles.com . At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 the first beam of protons was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.

Episode 2 introduces us to life at CERN and the excitement surrounding 'Big Bang Day'.

 
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Colliding Particles - Episode 1: Codename Eurostar

The first in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.

Gavin, Jon and Adam have a cunning plan to find the Higgs Boson, an elusive particle which physicists have been trying to find for over 40 years. One of the main aims of the the LHC is to discover once and for all whether the Higgs actually exists or not, and ‘Eurostar’ might just hold the key to finding out… Visit collidingparticles.com to found out more.


 
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