About This Video

The Large Hadron Collider is a miraculous piece of technology that has been charged with discovering new fundamental physics particles. But how can scientists design an experiment to detect new particles when they don’t know what these particles look like? Physicist Monica Dunford explains how more “boring” particles—such as photons and electrons—are detected and how the detritus from these known particles infers new possible particles.

Recorded June 2010; Posted September 2010