About
Lecture by Lyn Evans
Abstract
The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators at CERN through the years. I will explain how a particle accelerator works and will follow the path from the construction of the Proton Synchrotron in the 1950s to the world's most powerful colliding beam machine, the Large Hadron Collider.
Biography
Born in 1945, Lyn Evans has spent his whole career in the field of high energy physics and particle accelerators, participating in all the great projects of CERN. From 1993 he led the team that designed, built and commissioned the LHC. He is presently a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration. Among his many honours he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded a Special Fundamental Physics Prize in 2013 for his contribution to the discovery of the Higgs boson.
"Some aspects of physics at CERN (and elsewhere), from the early days to the LHC era." By Daniel Treille.
Abstract
I will use stories of various physics breakthroughs to illustrate the major phases of CERN's activities and results, from the early days to the LHC era, putting them into the general context of global particle physics.
Biography
1959: École normale supérieure (Ulm) in Paris
1963: Agrégation de physique
1967: Doctoral thesis in LAL Orsay
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- Globe
- Taught by
- Daniel Treille, Peter Jenni, Lyn Evans
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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