Particle
physicist Kyle Cranmer beams into the Bell House!
Take a spin through the science at the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator with physicist Kyle Cranmer—from the discovery of
the elusive Higgs boson (one of the fundamental particles that make up the
Universe) to the ongoing search for dark matter. After a two-year break, the atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider is now back for Season 2—running at nearly double its previous energy, hurling 600 million
protons together every second, and reaping juicy, cosmos-hacking data.
Just back
from LHC headquarters in Geneva,
Kyle Cranmer asks:
--What is
the process that LHC researchers use to search for new particles and new physics?
--What
exactly is the Higgs boson? How is it challenging our understanding of the Universe and fundamental laws of nature?
--What about dark matter—the invisible stuff calculated to make up 27 percent of the Universe?
--What are physicists looking for next? What mysteries
remain?
Kyle
Cranmer is a
professor at NYU's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and NYU's Center for Data Science. He is part of the team at the Large Hadron
Collider that first detected the Higgs
boson—the subatomic particle thought to be responsible for the existence of
mass in the Universe. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers and the National Science Foundation Career Award. His
research was featured in the award-winning documentary Particle Fever, and he has been a featured scientist on StarTalk Live with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Before & After
--Groove to
high-energy tunes
--Stick
around for the quantum Q&A
--Try our quarky cocktail of the night, the Atom Smasher
This subatomic edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, November 23 @ The Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd aves) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave, R to 9th St.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring
ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!
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