Experimental particle physics: What, why, and how?
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Binding Blocks Nuclear Physics Masterclass
Discover the key concepts of particle physics and find out about the big open questions that researchers are currently exploring. In this webinar, Dr Kate Pachel will discuss some of the types of particle physics experiments going on today, with a particular focus on high energy experiments and accelerators and colliders. She will end with a brief look at the idea of particle dark matter and how collider based experiments could lead us towards it.
This webinar is part of a series of four webinars for the Binding Blocks Nuclear Physics Masterclass.
Photo credit: Attribution: CERN, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/
About the speaker
Dr Kate Pachel is an experimental particle physicist whose research focuses on searches for new particles. She has been a member of the ATLAS collaboration for more than 10 years but has recently turned her focus to developing the DarkLight experiment. She got her BSc from the University of Victoria and her PhD from the University of Oxford. She worked as a postdoc first at Simon Fraser University and then at Duke University before beginning her current position as a research scientist at TRIUMF.