5 June, 2009
Particle Zoo story in CERN Bulletin
Yippee!
24-26 May, 2009
Julie and The Particle Zoo visit CERN
Visit the Particle Zoo Flickr gallery to see photos and movies of my visit to CERN!
Proton at the Control Centre.
31 May, 2009
"Einstein":: Swiss video :: Watch the particles in action at CERN
Physicist Angela Buechler goes underground at the LHCb and uses the particles
to explain what is happening there (aired 26 Feb 2009).
The whole video is interesting (even if you don't understand German) and the particles show up at 6:25.
Scroll down to "Einstein im Cern"
15 May, 2009
Neutrinos like to hang out at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
All 3 flavors of neutrinos hanging out in a PMT. And very happy to be there, judging from the smiles on their faces.
30 April, 2009
Dark Matter discovered at SNOLAB
Samantha Kuula, Education Outreach Officer for SNOLAB, a physics lab located 6,800 feet underground, has discovered dark matter hanging out in the PICASSO experiment. A triumph for science!
6 April, 2009
Higgs and Dark Matter turn up at CERN
James Colom and James Cram, particle physics students from Birmingham University (U.K.), took the Higgs and Dark Matter around CERN on a recent visit...
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15 March, 2009
Bootham School, York, U.K. uses particles for display
Thanks for Paul Burton, Chair of Science at Bootham Schoo,l for sending this photo of their display.
9 February, 2009
Higgs boson spotted at Fermilab
Special thanks to Heidi Schellman for discovering the Higgs boson right there in the Fermilab D0 Control Room.
He was found reading Symmetry Magazine, presumably to brush up on what the press has been saying about him.
19 January, 2009
Professor Peter Higgs holds his own Higgs boson
Many thanks to Jennifer Harding-Edgar of Edinburgh for providing this photo of Higgs with his Higgs:
"Professor Higgs loves his boson, he will use it as a paperweight."
I'm delighted to supply him a boson so his papers will be secured down and not flying around the room.
The Particle Zoo in the hands of the Nobel laureates in Physics
Thanks to James Gillies and the other nice people at CERN, the particles traveled to Lindau, Germany in early July to be presented to the Nobel laureates in physics at the annual conference of Nobel Prize Winners. The particles were greatly honored to be in the hands of the men who shaped much of what we know about the universe today:
• Dr. David Gross, 2004 Nobel winner in physics for the asymptotic freedom of quarks and strong color charge, got a gluon. I've been a of fan of David Gross ever since I watched this great lecture entitled "The Coming Revolutions in Theoretical Physics."
• Dr. George Smoot, 2006 Nobel winner in physics for cosmic background radiation, got a photon.
• Dr. Gerardus t'Hooft, 1999 Nobel prize winner in physics for electroweak interactions, got a Higgs boson.
All photos by Volker Steger.
Dr. David Gross and Dr. George Smoot show off their particles after the press conference in Lindau, Germany
David Gross(left) is currently director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA.
George Smoot is known for making cosmology "a precision science." As part of the COBE satellite research team, he discovered
evidence for the birth of the universe. So it is appropriate that he received a photon.
George Smoot, astrophyisicist, cosmologist and professor at MIT, with his photon.
Gerardus t'Hooft of the Netherlands is known for his work in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
There is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter named after t'Hooft, who wrote a constitution for its future inhabitants.