Jon Butterworth - Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Lhc

Synopsis

Video recording of a Friday Evening Discourse held at the Royal Institution on 27 January 2012 in which Professor Jon Butterworth explores some of the underlying concepts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and reveals the latest research into electroweak symmetry breaking. Professor Butterworth, is a member of the High Energy Physics group on the Atlas experiment. The LHC at Cern is probably the biggest scientific experiment ever conducted involving thousands of physicists and engineers measuring the results of 27km of superconducting magnets colliding protons at unprecedented energy levels. One of the headline goals is the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is more accurately described as the quest to understand the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces and the origin of mass - or ‘electroweak symmetry breaking’. (60 minutes)

Series

Ri Discourse, Series

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2012

Year of production

2012

Subjects

Physics

Keywords

electromagnetism; particle physics; Large Hadron Collider; Higgs boson

Online availability

URI

http://richannel.org/ri-discourse-jon-butterworth--electroweak-symmetry-breaking

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Contributor

Jon Butterworth

Production Company

Name

Royal Institution of Great Britain

Phone

020 7409 2992

Fax

020 7629 3569

Address

LONDON
W1X 4BS

Distributor

Name

Ri Channel

Web

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