Future of Particle Physics
Finding the Higgs boson was the last piece in physicists' model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there is much more for them to find out at the Large Hadron Collider.
Finding the Higgs boson on July 4th was the last piece in physicists' Standard model of matter. But Tracey Logan discovers there's much more for them to find out at the Large Hadron Collider. To start with there is a lot of work to establish what kind of Higgs boson it is.
Tracey visits CERN and an experiment called LHCb which is trying to find out why there's a lot more matter than anti-matter in the universe today. Dr Tara Shears of Liverpool University is her guide.
Tracey also talks to physicists who are hoping to find dark matter in the debris of the collisions at the LHC. Scientists know there's plenty of dark matter in the universe, from its effects on galaxies, but they don't know what it is. Tracey discovers that this fact isn't stopping the particle physicists carrying out experiments.
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Tracey Logan
Award-winning Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ science reporter Tracey Logan has travelled the world covering major developments in cutting-edge research.Β Β Β
Here, picking through the fallout of a Higgs Boson discovery with some of the world's greatest particle physicists, Tracey has enjoyed one of the most challenging and thrilling assignments of her reporting career. This really is news from the frontiers of human knowledge where scientists edge cautiously into unchartered territory, rewriting basic physics texts as they go. "What's exhilarating and slightly scary after so many triumphs of 20th century discovery is how little we still seem to know about life, the universe and everything."
A close up of an event in LHCb
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- Wed 7 Nov 2012 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the researchers responsible
