Smashing Physics: News from the energy frontier

When:
June 3, 2014 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
2014-06-03T18:30:00+00:00
2014-06-03T19:30:00+00:00
Where:
St. Aldates Tavern
108 Saint Aldate's
Oxford, City Centre, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BU
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Oxford Skeptics in the Pub

The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And what will the LHC do next? Jon Butterworth, a leading member of the ATLAS experiment, will talk about all this and more.

Jon Butterworth is also Head of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCL, and writes for the Guardian at http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics

7.30PM start at St. Aldates Tavern, and entry is free, although we do suggest a donation of around £3 to cover speaker expenses. Come along and say hello! All welcome.

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