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VIDEOS:  http://copyright.web.cern.ch/

1. Designing the Future Circular Collider

Press release: https://home.cern/news/press-release/... A short film about the Future Circular Collider study for a post-LHC large-scale research facility in particle physics. The film highlights the importance of continue exploring the fundamental questions about the universe and shows the importance of collaboration to tackle the technological challenges of this project. The project is co-funded by EuroCirCol, an EU Horizon 2020 programme. Contributors Co-Producer: Charitos, Panagiotis - CERN Longer version of this video available here: https://videos.cern.ch/record/2653683

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2. LHC animation: The path of the protons

This animation shows how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works. The film begins with an aerial view of CERN near Geneva, with outlines of the accelerator complex, including the underground Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 27-km in circumference. The positions of the four largest LHC experiments, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are revealed before we see protons travelling around the LHC ring. The proton source is a simple bottle of hydrogen gas. An electric field is used to strip hydrogen atoms of their electrons to yield protons. Linac 2, the first accelerator in the chain, accelerates the protons to the energy of 50 MeV. The beam is then injected into the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), which accelerates the protons to 1.4 GeV, followed by the Proton Synchrotron (PS), which pushes the beam to 25 GeV. Protons are then sent to the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) where they are accelerated to 450 GeV. The protons are finally transferred to the two beam pipes of the LHC. The beam in one pipe circulates clockwise while the beam in the other pipe circulates anticlockwise, increasing in energy until they reach 6.5 TeV. Beams circulate for many hours inside the LHC beam pipes under normal operating conditions. The two beams are brought into collision inside four detectors – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – where the total energy at the collision point is equal to 13 TeV. Collisions occur once every 25 nanoseconds, the trigger level 1 performs ultrafast event selection before data move to trigger levels 2 and 3 at the PC farm. Selected event data are then sent to the CERN data centre that performs initial data reconstruction and makes a copy of the data for long-term storage, while raw and reconstituted data are sent to the Computing Grid. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid infrastructure includes two "Tier 0" sites, one at CERN and one in Budapest, Hungary, as well as further smaller computing sites located around the world. As collision data increases, physicists build up enough statistics to test theoretical predictions, such as the prediction of a Higgs Boson, discovered in the data from the LHC's first physics run (shown as a bump in the graphs in the animation). The LHC allows physicists to probe the nature of matter. The new higher collision energy of 13 TeV opens up new frontiers in particle physics. Directors: Daniel Dominguez, Arzur Catel Torres Music: F_Fact_-_State_of_Mind_(_psystep_vers._of_the_beach) by "Platinum Butterfly" CC BY 3.0 You can follow us on: cern.ch youtube.com/cerntv

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3. Voyage into the world of atoms

 This animation shows the structure of matter at smaller and smaller scales. Zooming into a human hair, we pass through hair cells, fibril structures, keratin molecules, Carbon atoms, nuclei, neutrons, protons, and finally quarks. The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. Find out more: http://home.cern/…/physi…/standard-model Produced by Daniel Dominguez/CERN Copyright © CERN

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4. Linac4, CERN's newest accelerator

CERN's newest accelerator, Linac4, is on its way to join the LHC injection chain. It was inaugurated in May 2017, after two decades of design and construction. In spring 2017, the 160 MeV Linac4 was fully commissioned and entered a stand-alone operation run to assess and improve its reliability, prior to being connected to the CERN accelerator complex. It will be connected to the next accelerator in the chain, the PSB, in 2019 at the beginning of the LHC Long Shutdown 2. Test beams will be made available to the PSB as soon as 2020, and from 2021 all protons at CERN will come from the new Linac4. Produced by CERN Video Productions Screenwriter: Paola Catapano Editor: Christoph Madsen

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5. CERN: The Journey of Discovery

What is the universe made of? How did it start? At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. http://home.cern

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6. CMS prepares for the High-Luminosity LHC

The CMS experiment is undergoing major changes over the course of the current long shutdown of CERN's accelerator complex (called Long Shutdown 2 or LS2). These upgrades will help prepare CMS for the era of the High-Luminosity LHC, which will be the next phase of the Large Hadron Collider, from around 2026 onwards. The CMS Technical Coordinator, Austin Ball, describes the work being done in the deep-underground cavern where the CMS detector is located on the LHC ring.

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7. CERN and the rise of the Standard Model

 

Curiosity is as old as humankind, and it is CERN’s raison d’être. When the Laboratory was founded, the structure of matter was a mystery. Today, we know that all visible matter in the Universe is composed of a remarkably small number of particles, whose behaviour is governed by four distinct forces. CERN has played a vital role in reaching this understanding. Have we reached the end of the road in understanding nature? Far from it. There is still much to learn about the Higgs boson, the messenger of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field, and many other puzzles remain about how and why matter in the Universe is the way it is. Watch CERN’s contribution to this science in this video: “CERN and the rise of the Standard Model” Read more: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates... -Producer- CERN Video Productions -Director- Christoph Martin Madsen

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8. CERN VR-LHC and Grid Computing

 Discover CERN in Virtual Reality with this short clip. Live the challenge of analysing petabytes of data with more than half a million processor cores and go to places few persons are allowed.

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9. Knowledge and technology: from CERN to society

Explore how fundamental research is a driving force for innovation. As well as the World Wide Web, the most famous CERN technological innovation, CERN’s particle accelerators and detectors have many applications in everyday life. Electronic particle-detection techniques, for example, have revolutionized medical diagnosis. CERN collaborates with industry, giving it an expertise that can be applied to other areas. The technological innovations of the Laboratory thus spread rapidly to society, for the benefit of all. This film was made as part of CERN’s 60th anniversary celebrations. In 2014, CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace #CERN60, read more: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates... -Producer- CERN Video Productions

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10. CERN Knowledge Transfer

 

2017 has been a prosperous year for the Knowledge Transfer group, marking twenty years since CERN has set up a structure to support its knowledge and technology transfer activities. These activities led to collaboration agreements across a wide range of fields: from medtech to aerospace, industry 4.0 and cultural heritage. Find out more about CERN Knowledge Transfer’s year in review here: http://cern.ch/go/W8zN#CERNKT Produced by CERN Video Productions Director: Jacques Herve Fichet Producer: Anais Rassat

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11. S'Cool LAB Summer CAMP 2017

 

Between 23 July and 5 August 2017, groups of selected students had the chance to explore the fascinating world of particle physics at CERN and work together with CERN scientists on different research questions. Find out more: http://cern.ch/go/rK8t Video produced by: Patrik Pallagi

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12. LHChamber Music

LHChamber Music, an experimental piece and an "experimental" ensemble for the 60th CERN Anniversary, based on the sonification of the data recorded by the 4 detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) during the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) run 2010-2013. Music by Domenico Vicinanza, performed in the four experimental caverns and in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) by physicists and engineers working at CERN. In 2014, CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace. Find out about the celebrations and events being organised for #CERN60 via http://cern.ch/CERN60

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13. World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs 100 metres underground at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

 

On a recent visit to CERN, the world-famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma played in a unique music hall – 100 metres underground in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This video shows Yo-Yo Ma playing the Prélude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major. "I have always thought that philosophy, arts, and sciences belong together as equal partners in this thing we call culture,” explained Yo-Yo Ma. “We must fight for this belief. Because the widening gaps between disciplines of inquiry and between culture, economics, and politics have led to increasing and frightening fractures in the world." Speaking after the performance, CERN’s Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti said “It was a great moment of music in a very special place, and an occasion to underline the deep links between art and science”.

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