Professor Nick Evans

This talk introduces the main elements of modern particle physics including some of the more weird and wonderful concepts from quarks to neutrinos. Relativity and quantum theory link together to predict anti-particles. The quantum vacuum is a seething sea of appearing and disappearing particles.

Currently we are building the Large Hadron collider experiment to search for the Higgs boson a particle that provides all other particles with mass.

Activity: This talk can also form part of a larger afternoon or day- long activity involving a computer lab looking at real collider data.