The much anticipated particle physics documentary film Particle Fever will be opening at the Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa on Friday, April 11. It will be introduced by Carleton Prof. Heather Logan from the Department of Physics, who will take questions after the film.
This documentary provides an inside view of the research and discoveries that make the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) so immensely intriguing to particle physicists around the world. The LHC is indisputably the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator and aims to provide a tool for researchers to test the many different theories of particle physics.
Carleton University has many scientists involved in projects that are showcased in Particle Fever. The Large Hadron Collider uses two large particle detectors, one of those called ATLAS, developed with the involvement of Carleton physicists. Parts of ATLAS were actually built here at Carleton in the Herzberg Building and then shipped to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Working with the LHC provides excellent learning opportunities and a state-of-the-art training ground for Carleton students in the field of particle physics.
Carleton particle theorists who have worked with the LHC include professors Heather Logan, Stephen Godfrey, Pat Kalyniak, Thomas Gregoire and Bruce Campbell. Carleton’s experimental physicists involved in work with the LHC include professors Gerald Oakham, Manuella Vincter, Alain Bellerive, and Thomas Koffas. Many Carleton research associates and graduate students have been involved with projects that use the LHC. We have also had a few undergraduate Carleton students involved with LHC physics (both experimental and theoretical) through summer research opportunities and fourth-year honours projects.
Watch the trailer at Particlefever.com.
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