Big Picture Science: On a Collision Course
Breakthroughs around the detection of cosmic neutrinos — the “ghost”
particles that may reveal why matter, not antimatter, fills the universe —
recently earned a physicist the Nobel Prize in Physics. But one group of neutrino hunters isn’t waiting for supernovae
to churn up these high-energy particles. A massive new experiment that spans
three states will create neutrinos and fire them into liquid argon to better
understand their mysterious behavior. And after the better part of a century,
scientists may finally have glimpsed the primary component of nearly all matter:
dark matter. Are we close to understanding what it is? Finally, we glimpse the
proton-smashing at the Large Hadron Collider as it hints at undiscovered
physics and puts a stress test on the Standard Model.
Guests:
- Kate Shaw – experimental particle physicist at the University of Sussex who works on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, DUNE
- Kimberly Palladino – astrophysicist, professor of physics at the University of Oxford, and the project scientist for LUX- ZEPLIN an international collaboration searching for dark matter
- Harry Cliff – particle physicist at the University of Cambridge and a researcher with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
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