The Institute of Art and Ideas | Smashing particles at the energy frontier | With particle physicist Sarah Demers @TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Particle physicist Sarah Demers introduces the high energy collisions that her research consists in.

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At CERN's Large Hadron Collider, physicists create the world's highest energy human-made collisions to explore the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Join Yale Professor Sarah Demers as she describes how CERN researchers create, and learn from, these collisions at the energy frontier.

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Sarah Demers is an American physicist and the Horace D Taft associate professor of physics at Yale University.

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00:00 Introduction
00:15 How do we get high energy?
02:25 Protons in an electric field
04:32 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN
06:38 Spectacular collisions
08:18 Particle detectors

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