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MIT Physics Lecture Series: g The Enormous Subatomic Paradox
Professor Steve Nahn
Thu Jan 21, 01:30-02:30pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Accompanying the start of the Large Hadron Collider has been speculation of discoveries treading the line between science and science fiction: mini-black holes, new particles, extra dimensions, mechanisms for how fundamental particles have any mass at all. Winnowing these subatomic hypotheses requires the largest accelerator and detectors ever built, and in 2010, with "luck", first results will percolate out.
Why are behemoths required to examine the smallest scales, and how do these experiments really work? We'll explore the LHC and one detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid, to add context to the adjudication of science or science fiction.
Contact: Nancy Boyce, 4-315, 253-4461, nboyce@mit.edu
Sponsor: Physics
Latest update: 04-Nov-2009
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