Big Science for Big Questions: the race to find New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Monday, 11th May at 7pm in the bar of The Showroom

On 10th September 2008 seemingly the whole world was watching as the largest machine on the planet, the 27km circumference Large Hadron Collider, was coaxed into life 100m under Geneva. This mammoth project has been 15 years in the making, and despite the early engineering glitch it promises to revolutionise our understanding of how the universe works at the smallest and largest scales, answering questions ranging from how particles acquire mass to why galaxies rotate as fast as they do.

In his presentation Professor Tovey will give a whistle-stop tour of the LHC and the giant experiments which observe its collisions; outline the motivations behind their construction; and highlight the key role in the project played by Sheffield scientists.

Café Scientifique is sponsored by LloydsTSB

Dan Tovey Professor of Particle Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Sheffield