What We REALLY See at Particle Detectors

Since the era of particle colliders, physicists claim to have discovered many different types of elementary particles and with the latest discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the standard model of particle physics is complete. The lifespan of such exotic particles however is in the order of 10^(-25) seconds which is a much smaller time interval humanity measured so far. What gives the physicists the right to claim they have discovered such particles? In this video, I am going to talk about how such particles are detected and what it truly means when physicists say they detected a new particle.

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[stormk]

Thank you for this! I've never seen a video explaining the detectors at all or what we're seeing with the diagrams of lines shooting and curving everywhere.

[Riftsronru]

Very nice explanation of how we don’t detect anything except some energy released from the event. Vedas have said that since ages but here we go.

[ArnavBarbaad]

Watching this while sitting at International Conference in Frontiers of HEP (ICFHEP). This is your mangum opus video so far

[farhad_]

Great video. Very informative. Thank you.

[philoso]

Our friends in Switzerland gain world famous from making precision time piece ever so (tiny), in history. So what now? Making (tiny) particle physics.
What is in common?
Both are man made.

[philoso]

Kelly’s quote.
Real science is one disagreeable. Pseudo science is one must obey.

[MichalPlichta]

I think only e+/e- or u+/u- are posible!

[jacobvandijk]

By the way, "decay" is pronounced like "DK", not like decoy.