I don't know if you all do too, but I find the whole LHC thing pretty interesting.
So here's a short video (6ish minute) that gives a very simple and visual overview of how the whole thing operates:
Not at the physics grad student level or anything, but interesting for the rest of us!
Interesting factoid: at their speed of 99.9999991% of the speed of light, the accelerated protons will have a mass 7000 times that of their mass at rest.
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I've made a couple of oblique references to this over the past couple of months, but I have an article in the new issue of Physics World, on experiments using molecules to search for an electric dipole moment of the electron
"Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?" -Edward Bulwer-Lytton
For your reading and collection development pleasure. It's been so long since I last did one of these listings, I actually have another one coming up in a day or so.
"There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool." -Richard Da
The idea of particles having such a humongous non-rest mass is just mind-boggling. Thanks for the video, it's like particle Nascar.
"the accelerated protons will have a mass"
Protons are Catholic???!!!
Did the world end yet?