CERN in 3 minutes

CERN in a nutshell.


 

CERN NEWS: A Long Shutdown for the LHC

On 14 February at 7.24 am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), bringing the machine's first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. 8 TeV collision energy was enough to find a new particle, but that's not the maximum energy the LHC was designed for. For the LHC to reach its nominal energy of 14 TeV, extra work is now needed.

 

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 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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LHC collision event at CMS showing two photons -- 8 TeV (CMS Higgs search)

Real CMS events in which two photons (dashed lines and yellow towers) are observed in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes.

 

Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV

CMS Spokesperson Joe Incandela talks about the observation of a new particle by CMS.

 At a seminar held at CERN on July 4, as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, CMS presented the collaboration's latest preliminary results in the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. The experiment observes a new particle in the mass region around 125 GeV.

 

Higgs Boson Experimental Discovery at CERN

Director General of CERN, Rolf Heuer, and the head scientists from the ATLAS and CMS at CERN in Geneva gives a conference on the discovery of the Higgs Boson at a rest mass energy of 126.5 GeV at a 4.9 confidence level (the maximum limit being 5) . This confidence level, in experimental physics, constitutes a discovery with 98% probability of certainty, making it the first true discovery of the Higgs Boson in human history.

 This is the whole press conference.

 

Interview to prof. Peter Higgs about the latest results on the searches for the Higgs boson

Peter Higgs answers questions about his feelings following the announcement of the discovery of a new particle by ATLAS and CMS that looks like the Higgs boson, at a seminar at CERN on July 4, 2012. He also explains his role in the proposal of a Higgs mechanism. (The video ends abruptly!)

 

Joe Incandela talks about the Higgs Boson

Joe Incandela, CMS Spokesperson, on CMS progress on the search for the Higgs Boson.

 

The Higgs for me

"They got sentimental when thinking of Higgs" - Physicists give their thoughts on the Higgs Boson: including Nobel Prize winners Gerhard 't Hooft, David Gross, George Charpak, Jerome Friedman, Murray Gell-Mann plus Vivek Sharma, Guido Tonelli and Gigi Rolandi (CMS), Eilam Gross and Joao Guimaraes da Costa (ATLAS) and theoretical physicists Guido Altarelli and John Ellis.

 

Rolf Heuer on the results of the Higgs searches at ATLAS and CMS July 4 2012.

Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, answers questons on the results of the Higgs searches at ATLAS and CMS, July 4 2012, his personal feelings of the importance of the results and its implications on CERN and particle physics.

 

CERN NEWS : Are we there yet on the search for the Higgs boson ?

Rumors about imminent results on the Higgs boson from the LHC experiments are appearing in blogs, social media and newspapers all over the world. Meanwhile, thousands of physicists are carefully analyzing the data, looking not only for the Higgs but for many other new phenomena.

 

What is CERN? - Sixty Symbols

Professor Ed Copeland gives his own explanation and brief history of CERN - a Mecca for physicists and home of the Large Hadron Collider.

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Petabytes of data at Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols

This question is posed on behalf of many Sixty Symbols viewers who asked about it. With thanks to David Barney and Steven Goldfarb, from CMS and ATLAS respectively.

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Will the LHC destroy the world? - Sixty Symbols

CERN's Large Hadron Collider will NOT destroy our planet. But many of you asked about it - and the "scenarios" are a good excuse to discuss some cool physics. Dr Tony Padilla discusses a few doomsday theories from the very centre of the famed accelerator ring. Stand back and keep an eye out for black holes and strangelets!!!

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Inside ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols

The mighty ATLAS detector is searching for the Higgs Boson - one of a few experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

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