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Particle Physics Made Easy - With Pauline Gagnon

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Explore the fascinating world of particle physics in this comprehensive lecture by Pauline Gagnon, a former Senior Research Scientist at CERN. Delve into the purpose of the Large Hadron Collider, the evidence for dark matter, and ongoing research at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Learn about the Standard Model, the construction set of elementary particles, and the role of bosons in particle interactions. Discover the significance of the Higgs boson and its discovery at CERN. Investigate current challenges in physics, including dark matter, dark energy, and potential anomalies that could lead to groundbreaking discoveries. Gain insights into the scientific process, the importance of confidence levels in research, and the potential for revolutionary changes in our understanding of the material world.

Syllabus

Introduction
Outline
Aim
Atoms
Nucleus
Neutron
Standard Model
Construction set
bosons
exchanging bosons
massless particles
magnetic fields
Higgs boson
Large Hadron Collider
ATLAS
The Higgs Boson
The World Wide Web
Have we already found everything
Dark matter
Dark energy
The standard model
The best theories
Theories are stuck
A small anomaly
CMS
New boson
Confidence level
Events from CMS
CDF

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The Royal Institution

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4.3 rating, based on 3 Class Central reviews

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  • WONDIMU Mikiru Wakjira
    All most One houre lefts to end this course that is good.it is very long deep knowledge and skills learns from this courses about of particles in a motion.
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    Monisha
    An engaging lecture by Dr Pauline Gagnon covering the standard model Higgs boson- basically an overview of particle physics. It was delivered like a story, it was a train of thought with questions that many people have but seldom try to answer. But this lecture encouraged us to think further and informed of the importance of research in the area.
  • Muhammad Abubakr Hafeez
    It's been an outstanding lecture through starting to ending..some points are not cleared deeply although there is shortage of time as I know...but over all I gained a lot of knowledge and information from this lecture
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