Hidden Pieces: The LHC and our Dark Universe
summary
A collider built underground accelerates protons in opposite directions and collides ~100 billion protons per bunch to produce high-energy debris that detectors record with ~80 million pixel channels; worldwide processing runs on the LHC computing grid to filter ~40 million bunch crossings per second into analyzable events. The experiments claim 5σ at 125 GeV for the Higgs, confirming the predicted scalar and enabling precision studies; still unsolved: dark matter comprises ~85% of galactic mass and ~27% of cosmic energy, plus ~68% dark energy, and open CERN datasets (petabytes) fuel further searches.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 5:42The Human Eye
- 22:25Large Hadron Collider
- 24:27The Atlas and Cms Experiments
- 25:22The Lhc Computing Grid Project
- 30:53Why Is Gravity
- 33:44Energy of the Lhc
- 44:25Open Hardware Repository
- 54:27Supersymmetry
