The Large Hadron Collider | Sean Carroll

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Finding the Higgs boson particle is a big endeavor—and in this case, "big" means "discovering it involves constructing the largest machine on Earth." The Large Hadron Collider is also the most complicated machine built in human history. Keep the instructions while you watch this lecture; some assembly is required.

This video is episode nine from the series The Higgs Boson and Beyond, presented by Sean Carroll.

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Table of Contents:

00:00 Pre-History of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
05:15 Large Electron-Positron Collider
07:27 Lyn Evans Heads the LHC
10:07 How the LCH Magnets Work
14:19 Different Types of LCH Detectors
16:50 Compact Muon Solenoid
18:47 Beyond Protons: Other Collider Experiments
23:29 Challenges With Building the LHC
29:36 Why Luminosity Matters in Particle Physics

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All Comments (21)
  • “The trick to keeping them from heating up is to keep them very very very cold.” That was priceless 😎
  • @mdwoods100
    What a great introductory explanation of the LHC.
  • @pmichael590
    This is at least 7 years old. Would be nice to publish the date of the actual recording.
  • @paulnolan4971
    It's just a phenomenal endeavour and achievement. Blows my mind.
  • @feynstein1004
    What a great presenter. I could listen to him talk all day 😊
  • @L_Train
    I love that the fundamental essence of is just the principle of slamming things together and seeing what happens. It's a principle that has served humanity well for thousands of years
  • @viktorgoa
    It's a nice presentation and love that something like this was made because there is very little detailed video about how LHC works. When I was there at the open day, the amount of stuff they had was way more than I can summarise here: the cryogenic system, the vacuum system, their own magnet factory and technology, their separate accelerator rings and straight line accelerators, their sophisticated detector technology and types, their data storage, their control room (more like a warehouse), their other experiments they are working on besides the main ones. Also the effort they put into material selection and testing is crazy. And I must have forgotten a lot of other stuff but all in all it's way more complex than people imagine. I would love to see an hour long video on how these systems come together.
  • @Berghiker
    Great. That was in 2015. What about now in 2021? What's the current situation regarding the largest particle colider in the world?
  • @jimmyzhao2673
    If the tunnel for the LHC ran under my house, I would be sure to wear lead underwear for fear of stray protons frying my gonads.
  • Awesome episode of physics ! Good to learn about this LHC from Sean 👍👍
  • @ghahrai
    wish I had known at the beginning,that this video is from 2015 !
  • @boonteetan4448
    LHC is simply wonderful. It makes once practically impossible events possible.. A giant step forward for physics..
  • @luap4981
    Great explanation. Didn’t understand half of it but very interesting. The layman here is just wondering how many demons from other dimensions have been summoned by this thing
  • @gregbrooks5870
    Very interesting show thank you good knowledge on the collider nicely done thanks again 👍🇺🇸