Research Catalog

Title

Why do we exist?, Answers from the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tuts, Michael.
• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• "In tonight's lecture I will address the question of why do we exist from a physics perspective. We are made up of matter, which in turn is made up of elementary particles called quarks and leptons. Our theories have been quite successful in interpreting all the currently available data (we call that the Standard Model of Particle Physics), but there remain unanswered questions. Namely what are the elementary particles? How do they acquire their weight (or more properly, mass)? If our current theories are correct, the as yet undiscovered Higgs particle may be responsible for giving the elementary particles their mass -- thereby explaining why we exist. More intriguing is the possibility that there is a whole new set of partner particles to the ones we know about called Supersymmetric particles (or SUSY for short). These SUSY particles could help to explain some puzzling aspects of our Standard Model, and even more exciting could possibly be the stuff that dark matter is made of. We know dark matter exists and makes up about a quarter of the universe, But as yet we have no idea what dark matter actually is... Our journey tonight will take us from these big questions to the practical issues of how we hope to answer them using the ATLAS experiment [detector]." -- Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.
• Question and answer session includes questions about the cost and who pays for it, the relationship between Proton mass and Electron volts, E=mc2 in relationship to Higgs particles, what happens if Higgs particles are found or not, how to safeguard against the accelorators magnetic field, if mass is caused by Higgs field then does Higgs boson have mass, and the nature of time.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Professor Michael Tuts, Why do we exist?

Subjects

• Quarks
• Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
• Interviews
• Leptons (Nuclear physics)
• Video
• Filmed interviews
• Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Tuts, Michael
• Higgs bosons
• Supersymmetry
• Dance

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Video.
• Dance.
• Nonfiction films.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 6, 2011 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Mary Sharp Cronson.

Biography (note)

• "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is the world's highest energy accelorator. It has been under construction for more than a decade and began operations in 2010. The LHC is used by four large experiments, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE to study the collisions of protons with protons. Making use of Einstein's equation, E=mc2, we are able to use these collisions to recreate the conditions of the early universe and produce particles that have not occurred naturally since that time." -- Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.

Contents

Introduction (1 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson -- Presentation (51 min.) / presented by Michael Tuts -- Question and answer (16 min.) / speaker, Michael Tuts.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6101

OCLC

730250496

Title

Why do we exist?, Answers from the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2011.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Original Version

Original format: 1 DV cassette.

Performer

Presenter, Professor Michael Tuts, experimental particle physicists at Columbia University.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Feb. 6, 2011 (7:30 pm).

Biography

"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is the world's highest energy accelorator. It has been under construction for more than a decade and began operations in 2010. The LHC is used by four large experiments, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE to study the collisions of protons with protons. Making use of Einstein's equation, E=mc2, we are able to use these collisions to recreate the conditions of the early universe and produce particles that have not occurred naturally since that time." -- Professor Michael Tuts, house program notes.

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Tuts, Michael. Interviewee

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Speaker

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6101