Heavy Ion Collision Event Animation

Early heavy ion events in first heavy-ion fill with stable beam collisions seen in the ATLAS Experiment, 8 November 2010.

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A timelapse video from the ATLAS webcam. ATLAS is one of the detectors in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which will be completed in 2007 I made this video by taking one image per day from the atlas webcam and combining them (its 15 days per second)

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Entering the Atlas experiment, 100m below ground. Impressive.

Colliding Particles – Episode 5: Collidonomics

The fifth in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. This episode looks at the issue of funding, has an update on the status of the ATLAS experiment, joins Gavin in the mountains, and continues to follow the progress of the ‘Eurostar’ idea within the ATLAS experiment. For an introduction to the ‘Eurostar’ project, watch Episode 1, and for more info and to sign up for future episodes, please visit the project website at www.collidingparticles.com

LHCNews Nov 12, 2009 – Protons are back in the LHC!

After more than a year, protons were injected into the LHC…

Science And Exploration (1/2)

Why we need the explorers: Brian Cox on TED.com (Part 1 of 2). In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs — from space probes to the LHC — are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence. Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and explaining big science to the general public. He’s a professor at the University of Manchester. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Why you should listen to him: Based at the University of Manchester, Brian02 Cox works at CERN in Geneva on the ATLAS experiment, studying the forward proton detectors for the Large Hadron Collider there. He’s a professor at the University of Manchester, working in the High Energy Physics group, and is a research fellow of the Royal Society. He’s also become a vital voice in the UK media for explaining physics to the public. With his rockstar hair and accessible charm, he’s the go-to physicist for explaining heady concepts on British TV and radio. (If you’re in the UK, watch him on “The Big Bang Machine”.) He was the science advisor for the 2007 film “Sunshine”. He answers science questions every Friday on BBC6 radio’s “Breakfast Show”. “If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is …

Science And Exploration (2/2)

Why we need the explorers: Brian Cox on TED.com (Part 2 of 2). In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs — from space probes to the LHC — are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence. Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and explaining big science to the general public. He’s a professor at the University of Manchester. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Why you should listen to him: Based at the University of Manchester, Brian02 Cox works at CERN in Geneva on the ATLAS experiment, studying the forward proton detectors for the Large Hadron Collider there. He’s a professor at the University of Manchester, working in the High Energy Physics group, and is a research fellow of the Royal Society. He’s also become a vital voice in the UK media for explaining physics to the public. With his rockstar hair and accessible charm, he’s the go-to physicist for explaining heady concepts on British TV and radio. (If you’re in the UK, watch him on “The Big Bang Machine”.) He was the science advisor for the 2007 film “Sunshine”. He answers science questions every Friday on BBC6 radio’s “Breakfast Show”. “If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is …

CERN- reactions after experiment LHC 30 March 2010

CERN ATLAS first event in 2009

CERN LHC ATLAS experiment Control Room First Splash Events Nov 20 2009

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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 the ATLAS Collaboration was honoured by a very special visit to the detector in the underground cavern by Professor Stephen Hawking, the famous cosmologist holding the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University (position held by Isaac Newton in the 17th century). Professor Hawking was very keen to check for himself the status of the detector installation, and he admired, in particular, the spectacular TGC big muon wheel on side C. He was intrigued about the huge LHC interaction rate. He enquired about the differences between the SSC and the LHC, and was skeptical about the existence of the Higgs boson. He believes more in mini black holes. Hawking’s theory predicts spectacular events when black holes are produced. These mini black holes are expected to evaporate immediately by “Hawking radiation”. See at atlas.ch