The Large Hadron Collider is best known to collide protons. At CERN, every morning, scientists are known to collide something else as well – coffee and conversations. Just like a perfect blend of coffee, the Emc2 video podcast brings you the hottest science topics straight from the scientists of CERN.
Fermilab’s Muon g-2 collaboration has given its final word on the magnetic moment of the muon. The new measurement agrees closely with a significantly revised Standard Model (SM) prediction. Though the experimental measurement will likely now remain stable for several years, theorists expect to make rapid progress to reduce uncertainties and resolve tensions underlying the SM value. One of the most intriguing anomalies in particle physics is therefore severely undermined, but not yet definitively resolved.
14 Apr 2025
6: Tangled Up in Quarks
From the birth of quantum mechanics 100 years ago to its latest tests in high-energy proton collisions, we explore how the weirdness of the quantum world continues to unfold—one quark pair at a time.
4 Feb 2025
5: Exploring matter–antimatter asymmetry with LHCb
Join us as we dive in this podcast episode of Early Morning Coffee at CERN (Emc2) into the fascinating world of LHCb, the LHC's beauty experiment, with two leading experimentalists, Yasmine Amhis and Patrick Koppenburg. We explore how the LHCb experiment is probing CP violation to studying hadrons containing b and c quarks. Discover what makes LHCb unique—its asymmetric design and its remarkable success in identifying new hadrons.
16 Dec 2024
4: Turning lead into primordial soup
CERN experts discuss the science behind colliding lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider, unlocking new insights into the fundamental nature of matter and the universe.
30 Oct 2024
3: Searching dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider
On Dark Matter Day, discover how scientists at CERN are using cutting-edge technology and computing to tackle one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
2 Jul 2024
2: The Higgs Boson Special
Take a deep dive into the past, present and future of Higgs-boson research at CERN. Tune in to a special podcast on the occasion of the enigmatic boson’s 12th anniversary.
In this episode,
00:00 Teaser
00:13 Intro
03:29 4 July 2012
07:38 Why was this important?
14:29 Behind the discovery
28:19 Bosons and fermions
30:23 Books and metaphors
33:02 Since the discovery
37:47 High-Luminosity LHC
40:31 Physics at the HL-LHC
41:58 Detectors
42:30 The next era
42:52 Dark matter
44:28 Future machines
49:51 Question for you
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1 Jul 2024
1: Teaser
The Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast brings you the hottest science topics straight from the scientists of CERN. Get a sneak peek into the new podcast series, Emc2, with a teaser of our pilot episode.
Contributors
Executive Producer: Jacques Fichet
Director and Producer: Chetna Krishna
Host: Steven Goldfarb
Social Correspondent: Joni Pham
Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk
Studio Manager: Max Brice
Sound: Piotr Traczyk
Original Theme: Canettes Blues Band
This podcast is brought to you by the scientists at CERN in collaboration with the Education, Communications and Outreach group at CERN. Find us on CERN's YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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