Hey! It’s Susanna here and I am back with my incredible friends Emir Muhammad and Nikolas Hadjiantoni where we explore CERN together! And guess what… you are coming with us! Emir gives us exclusive access to CERN, which is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is host to a variety of facilities, including the famous Large Hadron Collider where they accelerate particles to 99.999969% the speed of light and then collide these particles in a variety of experiments, such as LHCb and ATLAS. CERN have been colliding particles together for over 70 years in the hope that we answer some of the biggest questions in our universe... like what is our universe even made up of?!
In part 3, Emir gives us insider access into the ATLAS experiment, the largest particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS (and CMS) discovered the Higgs Boson back in July 2012. This result explained how particles get their mass and eventually won the Nobel Prize in 2013!
Music Credits: AlexGrohl (Pixabay.com)
Director, producer, editor: Susanna Green
Co-producers: Emir Muhammad and Nikolas Hadjiantoni