Jonathan Bagger Atoms for Peace + 50 Beyond the Nucleus: Matter, Energy, Space and Time
Periodic Table of Elements
Brookhaven Cosmotron GeV protons
Subatomic Particles u 1969 SLAC c 1974 SLAC t 1995 FNAL 1895 d 1969 SLAC s 1969 SLAC b 1977 FNAL W,Z 1983 CERN e 1897 1937 1976 SLAC g 1979 DESY e 1956 SRTC 1962 BNL 2000 FNAL h Matter Forces BNL
Subatomic Particles u up c charm t top photon d down s strange b bottom W,Z weak e electron mu tau g gluon e neutrino neutrino neutrino h graviton Matter Forces
Fermilab Tevatron ,000 GeV proton-antiproton
Top Quark Discovery FNAL, 1995
Particle Physics Today Today, we stand at a crossroads in the history of science … After 50 years, we have reached the point where we can ask bold new questions about the structure of matter, energy, space and time
Particle Physics Today We can look forward …. “.... like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific – and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise – Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” John Keats
String Theory String theory predicts extra dimensions Where are they? How many are there? How are they hidden? What are their shapes and sizes? Such questions are moving from science fiction to science fact
Cosmology Most of the energy of the universe is dark
Cosmology What is the Dark Matter and Dark Energy? “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” William Shakespeare
CERN LHC ,000 GeV proton-proton
Linear Collider 2015 (?) 500-1,000 GeV electron-positron A Dark Matter Microscope
Atoms for Peace President Dwight D. Eisenhower “I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.... [The] United States pledges before you... to devote its entire heart and mind to finding the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.”
Atoms for Peace International flags at Fermilab