Cornell Cinema Ithaca, NY
Xuan Chen
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Particle Physics, Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE)
Particle Fever— Worlds collide
Program Description
Xuan Chen, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in particle physics at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) will explain the basic idea of particle physics, and how CLASSE is involved in building the instrumentation and creating new ideas to expand our knowledge of the universe with the Large Hadron Collider.
Presented At
Cornell Cinema Ithaca, NY
Film Synopsis
As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time—or perhaps their greatest failure.
Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist?
About the Speaker
Xuan Chen is a postdoc in particle physics at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021, and her research at Cornell focuses on developing the next-generation particle detector and search for dark matter with the data taken by the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.