Tag: UK
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United Kingdom
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:STFC public engagement webpage The UK has a diverse and substantial portfolio of particle physics research and outreach activities. UK physicists collaborate and conduct research in projects all over the world and within the UK. These activities include the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE experiments at the Large…
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Slovakia
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:Svet Castic Research in high energy physics is carried out mainly at four institutes in Bratislava and Košice, and focuses on the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the LHC. Research groups from Bratislava, active in nuclear structure studies, perform their experiments at ISOLDE facility at CERN. Smaller groups…
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LHCb Film: LHCb – The Beauty Experiment / LHCb -L’expérience de beauté
This short video for general audiences gives an overview of the LHCb experiment located on the Large Hadron Collider based at CERN. The video is narrated by LHCb physicist Tara Shears and includes comments and explanations by CERN’s Andrei Golutvin (LHCb Spokesperson), Susanne Koblitz (LHCb experiment), and Richard Jacobsson (LHCb Experiment). Topics covered include the…
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Re-Creating the Big Bang
Professor Peter Watkins of University of Birmingham, UK, gives a brief explanation of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment. In this short overview, he describes the following: 1. What scientists are researching at the LHC; 2. The LHC and how it works; 3. The main aims of the ATLAS experiment; 4. Why this…