Understanding The Large Hadron Collider

Sites that spread controversy on black holes: (These are sites that are commercially run. The authors are not scientists in any of these articles.)

• “The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World.” Cracked.com, www.cracked.com/article_16583_the-5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-to-end-world.html/.

• Murphy, Margi. “How Will the World End? Six Terrifying Ways Humanity Could Be Destroyed.” The Sun, The Sun, 25 Sept. 2017, www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4522411/will-the-world-end-on-september-23-2017-no-but-here-are-six-other-major-threats-to-humanity/.

• “Niagara Falls News - Latest Daily Breaking News Stories.” NiagaraFallsReview.ca, www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2015/03/24/why-are-we-poking-a-parallel-universe.

Sites that show how the LHC works: (These are informational sites that provide further information on the LHC, along with an article that explains lepton collision)

• “CERN Accelerating Science.” The Large Hadron Collider | CERN, home.cern/topics/large-hadron-collider.

• Evans, Lyndon. “The Large Hadron Collider.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, The Royal Society, 28 Feb. 2012, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1961/831#sec-14.

• godbegone. “How Does The Large Hadron Collider Work?” YouTube, YouTube, 13 Sept. 2008, www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIeY7Zj27IM.

• “Home.” Home - Science and Technology Facilities Council, www.stfc.ac.uk/research/particle-physics-and-particle-astrophysics/large-hadron-collider/.

• “How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider.” Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2015, www.popsci.com/how-it-works-large-hadron-collider.

• “A Large Ion Collider Experiment.” ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment, aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html.

• “The LHC for Dummies.” The LHC for Dummies, plus.maths.org/content/lhc-dummies.

• “LHCb - Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment.” LHCb - Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment, lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/.

• Strickland, Jonathan. “How the Large Hadron Collider Works.” HowStuffWorks Science, HowStuffWorks, 8 Mar. 2018, science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/large-hadron-collider.htm.

• Strassler, Matt. “Introduction to the LHC.” Of Particular Significance, 8 July 2011, profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadroncolliderfaq/introduction-to-the-large-hadron-collider/.

• Müller S.J., Keitel C.H., Müller C. Particle production reactions in laser-boosted    lepton collisions Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Volume 90, 2014

Sites that helped explain the Higgs boson particle and other particles:

• “The Higgs Boson.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 338, no. 6114, 2012, pp. 1558–9.

• Cho, A. “THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON.” Science., vol. 338, no. 6114, 2012, pp. 1524–1525.

• Quarks, hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html.

Sites that explain the little black holes: (Site that helps understand what a black hole is)

• Dunbar, Brian. “What Is a Black Hole?” NASA, NASA, 21 May 2015, www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html.

• Walker, Robert. “Debunked: the Large Hadron Collider Will Create Mini Black Holes That Will Destroy the World.” Quora, debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/Debunked-the-Large-Hadron-Collider-will-create-mini-black-holes-that-will-destroy-the-world.

​Sites for cost controversy: (Sites that helped answer questions about cost, and that are used for pros/cons of cost controversy/justification) 

• “Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Ten Facts about Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins' Mission.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 18 July 2009, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5852237/Apollo-11-Moon-landing-ten-facts-about-Armstrong-Aldrin-and-Collins-mission.html.

• “CERN Accelerating Science.” The Birth of the Web | CERN, home.cern/topics/birth-web.

• Cheng, Roger. “How Much Is the Internet of Everything Worth? Cisco Says $19 Trillion.” CNET, CNET, 26 Feb. 2014, www.cnet.com/news/how-much-is-the-internet-of-everything-worth-cisco-says-19-trillion/.

• Dunbar, Brian. “Birth of the Mouse.” NASA, NASA, www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/taylor_more.html.

• NASA, NASA, science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/belleau2.

• Otto, Sasjkia. “Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Top 15 Nasa Inventions.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 22 July 2009, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5893387/Apollo-11-moon-landing-top-15-Nasa-inventions.html.

• “The Technology behind the Large Hadron Collider Is Now Being Used to Treat Cancer.” Quartz, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2015, qz.com/325527/the-technology-behind-the-large-hadron-collider-is-now-being-used-to-treat-cancer/.

• “The True Cost of Over $50 Billion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.” United to End Cancer, blog.u2ec.org/wordpress/?p=2082.

Professors that helped me:

Michael Forbes - Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT , 2005. Ph.D.