Rare beauty: seeking new physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Rare beauty: seeking new physics at the Large Hadron Collider
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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have spent the past decade in search of new particles and forces that could address some of the biggest mysteries in science, from the nature of dark matter to why there is matter in the universe at all. While no direct signs of new particles have been found so far, over the past few years, physicists at the LHCb experiment have started to see hints of a new force of nature affecting the way that beauty quarks decay. In this talk, LHCb physicist Harry Cliff will explain the science of LHCb and the Large Hadron Collider, and the tantalising anomalies that could be showing us the first outlines of a deeper picture of nature.
Speakers
Harry Cliff (Gonville & Caius 2004)
Dr Harry Cliff works on LHCb, a large international particle physics experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. His research is focussed on the very rare decays of particles called beauty quarks, a promising area to search for evidence of new particles or forces that could help resolve some of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. He is a prolific communicator of science, having worked as curator of exhibitions at London's Science Museum for seven years and has given numerous public talks and media interviews, including at TED, the Royal Institution and the BBC.
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