Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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To do particle physics you need detectors. Whilst at CERN I took a look at the wide variety of detectors used in the Large Hadron Collider.


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Links for more information

CERN's Detector Graveyard
youtube.com/watch?v=z9py52cvxdc

ATLAS
https://atlas.cern/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment

ALICE
https://home.cern/about/experiments/alice
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment

LHCb
https://home.cern/about/experiments/lhcb
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHCb_experiment

Cloud Chamber
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber

Bubble Chamber
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_chamber

Transition Radiation Detector
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_radiation_detector

Straw Tracker
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_tracker

Calorimeter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter_(particle_physics)

Wire Chamber
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_chamber

Scintillation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_(physics)

Cherenkov Radiation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation


Thanks to Dr Ulla Blumenschein, Dr Eram Rizvi, Dr Jon Hays, and Dr Marcella Bona of QMUL along with the Outreach team at ATLAS for help making this video possible
Music by BenSound