Weighty Matters: The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson

Speaker
Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee, FRS
Event date
Event time
17:30 - 18:30
Venue
SJE Arts Centre
St. John the Evangelist,
169 Iffley Road
Oxford
OX4 1EH
Event type
Concerts
Event cost
All events free for 25yo and under; Season ticket £100/£85; Evening concerts £23/£18; Afternoon concerts £13/£10; Lectures £3/£2
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Recommended

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva we can probe our Universe moments after the Big Bang to tackle questions about its origin, evolution and composition. The discovery in July 2012 of the Higgs boson completes the particle content of the standard model of particle physics, a theory that describes our visible universe in exquisite detail. Via the CMS experiment at the LHC, Jim will look into the evolution of our universe from the Big Bang, the fundamental particles and their interactions, and the long journey to the discovery of the Higgs boson.