A Decade of Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider

Published 2020-10-22
It’s been 10 years since the first particles smashed into each other at the world’s biggest scientific experiment, the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists from each of the four giant experiments - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - reflect on what they've learned over the past decade and what they hope to discover in the next.
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The speakers are:
Sudarshan Paramesvaran is a Lecturer at the University of Bristol. He has worked on the CMS experiment at the LHC for 10 years, having achieved his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London working on the BaBar experiment at SLAC in 2010.

Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus is Section Leader of the CERN ALICE physics and performance group and the ALICE Analysis Coordinator. He achieved his PhD at the University of Muenster, Germany in 2009. He has worked at CERN since 2006, and has been a staff member since 2012.

Barbara Sciascia (PhD, University of Rome, Sapienza, 2020) is researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) of National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy. Her scientific activity is in the field of high energy experimental physics mainly studying flavour physics through participation in the KLOE experiment at LNF (1998-2013) and the LHCb experiment at CERN (2011-present).

Monica D’Onofrio is the team leader of the Liverpool group at the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Previously she studied her undergraduate at the University of Pisa, Italy, followed by a PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2005. Since 2010 she has worked at the University of Liverpool after a post-doc in IFAE, Barcelona. She has been an ATLAS member since 2002, working on searches for new physics in particular supersymmetry and dark matter.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Allywix
    I remember watching the live stream of the LHC being turned on. It was so exciting to see the world not end.
  • @CyberUK
    The second I saw this header in my notifications, my day immediately got better. Love you guys (men & women) at RI
  • @JATmatic
    "The LHC is so sensitive that is has been tuned to take into account of the phase of the moon, due to the acceleration ring lenght changing" whoa.
  • I am not a science student. But I watched this very exclusive program out of curiosity. I admit, I could not grasp its contents fully. However after watching it thrice, I understood major terminologies referred to in this program to a great extent. I understood the expanse and importance of this LHC project. I humbly thank the entire team that aired this program.
  • @legojayman
    This is so cool! I didn't know it created the coldest place in the universe known by us humans so far
  • Thank you so much for continuing to produce content! Love y'all
  • I think this is the first time I saw a video on this channel which is not in that iconic amphitheatre ❤️😭
  • Fascinating to know what LHC has been doing all this time. Very interesting video
  • Just watched a video by Simon Whistler on his Megaprojects channel about the LHC, and it still blows my mind how little we have discover in this universe compared to it known knowns thus far. A wonderful 10th Anniversary indeed 👏👏👏
  • @RiCsoundbox
    This should go viral... but not everyone is a tech geek!
  • @NathanaelNewton
    Wonderful video, Watched the whole thing.. it's surprising that it only cost 4.75 billion $... That's peanuts compared to some things we as a society spend money on, I'm going to use it as a comparison from now on..
  • Such a gift to be able to listen to (and try to understand) some of the smarts mind...true gems of humanity. Thank you RI.
  • @EleanorPeterson
    I still find it hard to comprehend that light travels around the whole 16.7 mile ring 11 times every second. Eleven times every second? 🐌 That's... er, quite quick. 🐢
  • @maxheadrom3088
    Just a question: 5:50 I'm currently at a temperature much higher than -270C and I'm in the Universe. Is it correct to assume that the temperature of the universe mentioned by the researcher is an average? If it is an average, is it really possible to say the LHC is the coldest place in the Universe? Thanks! (So, this is a real question - it started with a rather lame observation but then my brain told me I know almost nothing and that I should check with the specialists ... and that's what I'm doing.)
  • @datcan
    Hazardos enviorment’s theme plays in the distence
  • @mindtap7283
    I would love to see an electron. WHAT! You don't have one. You mean you cannot show me the teny tiny little BB;s flowing back and forth in the wires above my head. Trillions of dollars laundered and many generations of paychecks for the bean counters. But yet, not even a picture of an electron. Some great graphics and a dinosaur this time. WOW! How many times can you rip the people off. This one has got to break some kind of record. “To describe an electron as a negatively charged body is equivalent to saying that it is an expanding-contracting particle. There is no such condition in nature as a negative charge, nor are there negatively charged particles. Charge and discharge are opposite conditions, as filling and emptying, or compressing and expanding are opposite conditions.” – W. Russell JJ Thomson developed the “Ether Atom” ideas of M. Faraday into his “Electronic Corpuscle”, this indivisible unit. One corpuscle terminates on one Faradic tube of force, and this quantifies as one Coulomb. This corpuscle is not and electron, it is a constituent of what today is known incorrectly as an “electron”. (Thomson relates 1000 corpuscles per electron) In this view, that taken by W. Crookes, J.J. Thomson, and N. Tesla, the cathode ray is not electrons, but in actuality corpuscles of the Ether.” – E. Dollard “There is no rest mass to an ‘electron’. It is given here the ‘electron’ is no more than a broken loose “hold fast” under the grip of the tensions within the dielectric lines of force. They are the broken ends of the split in half package of spaghetti. Obviously this reasoning is not welcome in the realm of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.” – E. Dollard “Unfortunately to a large extent in dealing with dielectric fields the prehistoric conception of the electro-static charge, the ‘electron’, on the conductor still exists, and by its use destroys the analogy between the two components of the electric field, the magnetic and dielectric. This makes the consideration of dielectric fields unnecessarily complicated” - C.P. Steinmetz (Electric Discharges, Waves and Impulses) The idea of electricity as a flow of ‘electrons’ in a conductor was regarded by Oliver Heaviside as “a psychosis”. This encouraged Heaviside to begin a series of writings Also consider the J.J. Thomson concept of the "electron" (his own discovery). Thomson considered the electron the terminal end of one unit line of dielectric induction.
  • @FreshKozy
    Why is this something I've literally never heard of, deep dive tonight.