Previous Episodes
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  • Episode 01: Codename Eurostar

  • Gavin, Jon and Adam have a cunning plan to find the Higgs Boson, an elusive particle which physicists have been trying to find for over 40 years.  One of the main aims of the the LHC is to discover once and for all whether the Higgs actually exists or not, and ‘Eurostar’ might just hold the key to finding out…
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  • Episode 02: Big Bang Day

  • At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 the first beam of protons was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.   Adam introduces us to life at CERN and the excitement surrounding 'Big Bang Day'.
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  • Episode 03: Conference Season

  • Jon travels to Philadelphia to present the Eurostar paper to ICHEP. Held every 2 years, the International Conference on High Energy Physics is the most prestigious conference in particle physics, and brings together the world's leading theorists and experimentalists for a week of idea sharing.
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  • Episode 04: Problems

  • 'Problems' travels to Paris for a look at some of the theoretical work behind the 'Eurostar' paper.  Gavin and his PhD student Mathieu explore the mathematics behind the behaviour of fundamental particles, and we have an update on the 'incident' which is holding up work at the LHC. 

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  • Episode 05: Collidonomics

  • 'Collidonomics'  touches on the subject of funding.  We have an update on the status of the ATLAS experiment, joins Gavin in the mountains, and continues to follow the progress of the 'Eurostar' idea.
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  • Episode 06: Beam

  • 'Beam' looks at the role of competition in science and joins a night shift in the control roo of the CMS detector.
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  • Episode 07: Data

  • ''Data' takes the Eurostar to Paris for the announcement of first results from the LHC.  It's the culmination of over 20 years work and the first step on the road to many years of discoveries at the LHC.
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  • Episode 08: The Dice

  • It's December 2011 and CERN is about to give a hotly anticipated update on the serach for the Higgs boson at the LHC...
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  • Episode 09: Decay

  • It's January 2012.  Hints of something possibly Higgs-like have been seen at CERN, but how you go about actually spotting a Higgs in a detector?
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  • Episode 10: Blogs

  • March 2012, and the experiments at the Tevatron are due to announce the final results of their search for the Higgs before their collider is turned off for good. Will their findings show the same hints of a Higgs-like signal already spotted at the LHC?

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  • Episode 11: Higgs

  • It's July 2012, and it seems there is some sort of announcement about to be made....
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  • Episode 12: Loose Ends

  • The elusive Higgs Boson has finally been discovered - does this mean everyone can go home now? Jon and Gavin discuss the next steps in the historic discovery.
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