The smallest bits of the Universe that do matter! by Marco Bomben
Channel: Université Paris Cité
Date: 09/09/2022

Pint of Science - Monday, May 9, 2022
The atomists knew it 25 centuries ago: matter is made of tiny building blocks. In 1897, J. J. Thomson discovers the electron by accelerating an ionized gas. After that moment, the size of accelerators and the knowledge of the fundamental bricks of the Universe never stopped increasing. Marco Bomben will try to explain why we accelerate particles and how many we have found so far. Many examples will be taken from the history of CERN, the European laboratory of particle physics founded in 1954, which is the "center of gravity" of his research activity on silicon particle detectors.
Speaker:
Marco Bomben (assistant professor, Astroparticles and Cosmology lab, Université Paris Cité)
Event link:
https://pintofscience.fr/event/shooti...
Sponsors : 
https://u-paris.fr/who-am-i/
https://u-paris.fr/sciences/
https://eur-gene.u-paris.fr/
Technical facilities: 
Image & Sound department, Université Paris Cité