Name: The Quarky World of Particle Physics
Start: 2023-05-23T19:30:00
End: 2023-05-23T21:30:00
Location: The Bedford

Tonight, we'll be exploring all things particle physics! Join us for a particle-ly interesting evening of quarks, muons, and discovering what might lie beyond our current understanding.

CERN and all that - an update from the energy frontier

Professor Jonathan Butterworth (Professor of Physics)

I will explore our current state of knowledge of particle physics, the so-called standard model, which was completed by the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. This gives us a map of the invisible world of subatomic physics. But what does the map reveal, what lies beyond its limits and what are the latest experiments telling us?

Are muons hiding the secret to new physics?

Dr Rebecca Chislett (Associate Professor in Physics & Astronomy)

A tantalising hint at physics beyond our current understanding is provided by the first results from a new experiment at Fermilab in Chicago, USA. This could help explain the known discrepancies in our current best model of the universe such as dark matter and why our universe is made of matter rather than anti-matter. I’ll explain this exciting result, which is a measurement to incredibly high precision, equivalent to measuring the length of a football pitch to better than the width of a human hair!

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