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7 August, 2014

Exploring the Frontiers of Size and Energy at the Large Hadron Collider - Sub-atomic particles, the Higgs Boson and beyond

Date/Time: Thursday, 7 August 2014

Location: Level 1, Napier Building, Lecture Theatre 102

Cost: FREE

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Particle physicist Chris Rogan is a 2014 Australia-Harvard Fellow and a leader in the field. In 2012 Chris made Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list of notable leaders while he was still a graduate student at Caltech.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's most powerful probe of the experimental physics frontier and the largest scientific instrument ever built. On the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland at the CERN physics laboratory it has been used to collide protons at an unprecedented energy, allowing researchers to peer into the world of the smallest lengths scales currently accessible to mankind and unlock some of Nature's previously hidden secrets.

This lecture will provide an introduction to this subatomic world, the particles that reside there and the forces that govern them. It will describe the LHC machine and the particle detectors located there, how they work and what scientists use them for.

Contact: Ms Sharon Johnson, Email: coepp@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.chemphys.adelaide.edu.au/research/, Business: 83133533

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