Mysteries of matter at the LHC

When:
September 26, 2014 @ 7:50 pm – 9:15 pm
2014-09-26T19:50:00+01:00
2014-09-26T21:15:00+01:00
Where:
Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
Cost:
£17
Contact:
Royal Institution
020 7409 2992

ATLAS event CREDIT ATLAS collaboration CERNTwo years ago, the Higgs Boson was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. But how precisely does it fill its role as the last missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics?
The Large Hadron Collider will restart in 2015 with almost double the collision energy to test just that. But even then, this theory only accounts for 5% of the Universe, and does not include gravity.

Can the LHC shed light on the origin of dark matter? Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces? Dr Pippa Wells will explain how the LHC will explore these mysteries of matter.