The Buzz S3 E5: Working on the Large Hadron Collider
The Buzz podcast 17th November 2022
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We hope you’ve been following our mini-series on the work our academics are doing on the experiments being carried out on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. We thought it might be an idea to take extracts from each of the four interviews we carried out with them and edit them together into a standalone podcast.
In the podcast, you can hear Chris Parkes, Will Bertsche, Marco Gersabeck and Jonathon Langford talk about the work they do at CERN. We also asked them about whether their work can have wider benefits for society as a whole, and whether the sometimes “tabloidy” nature of the reporting of their work frustrates them. You can also hear Johnno, who graduated from the University of Manchester in 2017, and his journey which led him from almost dropping Physics at A level, to obtaining his PhD with a thesis on “measuring the properties of the Higgs Boson.”
So if you’d like to discover which particular fruit is a good source of positrons, or what happened when an equipment supplier decided that the work being done at CERN was “evil,” then you know what to do.
Hopefully these small extracts will whet your appetite to find out more. If so, you can read full interviews with Chris and Will, with Marco and Johnno coming soon. You can also read our opening story about the equipment which is built right here at the university. And if you liked what you heard, then why not subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, Spotify, or your other podcast software of choice? We’ll be back very soon with another episode.
