Video is one of the most effective way to learn about something complex. In Japan, local officials in two candidate construction sites for the ILC have produced the videos to gain recognition and understanding of the project. These two videos share the same purpose – invite the ILC to their region – but the ways […]
Higgs session at Moriond
The Moriond conference, one of the most central physics conferences where latest results are presented to the community, is in full swing. Yesterday, Wednesday, was entirely dedicated to “The SM Scalar boson” – or, in other words, the new particle discovered at the LHC. Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments presented their latest results, and […]
The video of the year
Relive the most exciting scientific moment of the year (and possibly the decade) – watch the announcement of the discovery of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider again. And again. Download from CERN Document Server.
The Higgs, Who Cares? More than 1200 people did in Arlington…
…and for those who could not make it to the lecture “The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, Who cares?” by Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg at last week’s LCWS12 meeting, the organiser have put it on YouTube. Well, the closing sentence and the question-and-answer session are there – there were sound problems for the lecture itself. However, […]
The great ILC flythrough: a trailer
Coming soon to YouTube channels near you: a complete video tour of the ILC, based on all available CAD data. Road signs have been added for orientation, and a voiceover will explain what you see, and why it looks the way it does. Stay tuned!
SLAC All Access: klystrons on YouTube
SLAC’s YouTube channel has more on klystrons, and of course the legendary klystron gallery. In a video about SLAC’s Vacuum Microwave Device Department (VMDD), introduces itself as those people who build the devices that make SLAC’s particle accelerators go: klystrons. These devices generate intense waves of microwave energy that rocket subatomic particles up to nearly […]
Singalong tutorial
After all of this week’s news, press releases, blog posts, backgrounders and newspaper stories here’s more about the Higgs – catchy, rhythmic and full of clever lyrics. If you think you’ve still not grasped the Higgs mechanism this song will stick in your head! It’s “The Particle Physicists’ Song” (based on “The Hippopotamus Song” by […]
From mining coal to colliding particles
Lyn Evans talks to the BBC about his life before the Linear Collider
In a 2009 video interview with the BBC, new Linear Collider Director Lyn Evans talks about how he, a miner’s son from Wales, became project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He says that “a random walk of life” brought him from Swansea to CERN, now another (not quite so random) walk of […]
Dr Higgs explains acceleration
The potential of superconducting niobium cavities
There are more than 30,000 particle accelerators in operation around the world. At Fermilab, US, scientists are collaborating with other laboratories and industry to optimise the manufacturing processes for a new type of powerful accelerator that uses superconducting niobium cavities. View video