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Nutshell
September 24, 2015
U. Perez @ Philippine Science High School
In a nutshell
My little Problem
In a nutshell
The LHC is the largest experiment in the world and costs about 10B USD (about
500 Mind Museums)
It has accelerators that ramps up proton speeds to near the speed of light.
In four points in the LHC they collide at energies equivalent to an onrushing
locomotive.
The superconducting magnets are kept at a temperature
colder than any place in the galaxy.
All these to understand a very fundamental question:
What is the universe made of?
Object
Size
Radiation
Energy
Atom
10-10 m
0.00001 GeV
Nucleus
10-14 m
0.01 GeV
Nucleon
10-15 m
0.1 GeV
Quarks
> 1 GeV
Higgs
126 GeV
Accelerating Protons
Why a collider?
Collider: p1 = -p2
Fixed-target: p1 = -p2
Not everything is
interesting
If you burn the LHC data to CDs and
stack them, youd create something twice
taller than Mount Everest.
Scientists have to sift through data. (see
video)
Analyzing Data
is a lot like playing
Wheres Waldo?
Bump = Squirrel
Discovery or not
In a nutshell:
The number of sigmas measure
how unlikely it is to get a certain
experimental result as a matter of
chance rather than just due to a
real effect. - Jason Palmer, BBC
Test Models
Understand Nature
Standard Model of
Particle Physics
quarks
leptons
photons
gluons
W/Z boson
Graviton (?)
Hierarchy Problem
To
Technological
Spin-offs
Analyze