EPISODE · May 4, 2015 · 51 MIN
Jon Butterworth: Smashing Physics - News from the energy frontier
from Skeptics in the Pub, Oxford · host SitP Oxford
The discovery of the Higgs boson was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. But what is a Higgs boson? How was it found? And what will the LHC do next?
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3 June 2014The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And what will the LHC do next? Jon Butterworth, a leading member of the ATLAS experiment, will talk about all this and more.Professor Jon Butterworth is also Head of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCL, and writes for the Guardian.
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