QNP2024 - The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics

Session

Public lecture

10 Jul 2024, 18:30

Aula Magna (Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona)

250. Understanding the Large Hadron Collider: What, why and how?

Freya Blekman

10/07/2024, 18:30

Plenary talk

Ever wondered about why the 27 kilometer Large Hadron Collider was built and what scientists do with it? Then this is the talk for you! The large hadronic collider is the Swiss army knife of experiments, and investigates anything from new particles and forces to the birth of the universe. As one of the physicists who works with the enormous detectors that record the collisions of the Large...