1. Particle Physics From Strings To Stars

2. Introduction  What is Particle Physics?  Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  Current Experiments – ALICE – ATLAS – ATLAS  The Future..?

3. What is Particle Physics?  Why does the sun shine?  Why is the sky blue?  Discovering the nature of the Universe!

4. What is Particle Physics?  The Universe – Boils down to just a few fundamental particles and forces which come together in various combinations  The Standard Model!

5. The Standard Model  What we and the rest of the Universe are made of  Six Quarks in three generations  Top Quark – Weird! 175 time mass of proton!  Six Leptons – Includes neutrinos and the electron  Bosons – ‘Force Carriers’  Includes the photon; Carrier of the EM force  Higgs Boson..?

6. Grand Unified Theory (GUT)  Trying to unify the fundamental forces  Electric, Magnetic, Strong, Weak  Electromagnetic, Strong, Weak  Electroweak, Strong  However, there’s more than one GUT  Still need to deal with gravity; maybe at 10 40 GeV  Superstring Theory seems to be a good candidate  Closed flexing loops of space-time!  Still only a theory…

7. What are we doing right now?  Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – Slams stuff together! – ALICE – Quarks and Gluons – ATLAS – The search for the Higgs Boson

8. On With The Show! See you in a bit!