Can dark matter be produced 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. 



Hear from host Steven Goldfarb and our guests Baptise Ravina from the ATLAS experiment and Annapaola de Cosa from the CMS experiment.



In this episode:

0:00 - 0:45 — Teaser

0:45 - 1:20 — Introduction

1:20 - 2:10 — Origins of Interest in Dark Matter

2:10 - 3:47 — Dark Matter Evidence

3:47 - 4:47 — Cosmic Background & Relativity

4:47 - 5:46 — Gravity and Dark Matter

5:46 - 9:15 — What Is Dark Matter?

9:15 - 11:00 — Detection Challenges

1:00 - 13:30 — Detection Strategy

13:30 - 16:18 — Differentiating Neutrinos

16:18 - 18:00 — Alternative Models

18:00 - 19:35 — Particle Jets

19:35 - 20:08 — Theory vs. Concept

21:53 — LHC & Higgs Discovery

22:12 — Higgs-Dark Matter Link?

22:27 — LHC Dark Matter Search

23:02 — Dark Higgs Theory

24:02 — Dark Leptons & Quarks

25:03 — Parallel Universe Hypothesis

25:54 — LHC Upgrades & Future

27:22 — AI and New Physics

28:43 — Planning a New Collider

29:49 — Other Dark Matter Experiments

30:48 — Complementary Approaches

31:30 — Dark Matter Quest

32:11 — Quantum Fields

33:00 — Team



Guests

Annapaola da Cosa, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich (CMS)

Baptiste Ravina, Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (ATLAS)



Contributors:

Host & Script: Steven Goldfarb

Executive producer: Jacques Herve Fichet

Director & Producer: Chetna Krishna

Editor: Chetna Krishna

Production Assistant: Joni Pham

Sound designer: Piotr Traczyk

Original Music: Canettes Blues Band

Graphics and animation: Daniel Dominguez

Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk

Studio Manager: Max Brice

Advisors: Matthew Chalmers, Paola Catapano, Arnaud Marsollier