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.
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Dr Harry Cliff (Gonville & Caius 2004)
Dr Harry Cliff is Ernest Rutherford Fellow in high energy physics and Public Physicist at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. He leads the rare decays programme of the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which studies the extremely rare decays of beauty quarks – processes that may reveal new particles or forces beyond the Standard Model and help answer some of the deepest questions in physics.
A passionate science communicator, he previously held a joint post with the Science Museum, curating major exhibitions, and has delivered widely viewed TED and Royal Institution lectures. He is the author of How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch and Space Oddities.
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