Particle fever

DVD 2014

Particle fever gives audiences a front row seat to our generation's most significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. The film follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet. 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries join forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just mo...

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Collisions (Nuclear physics) Experiments

Discoveries in science

European Organization for Nuclear Research

Higgs bosons

Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)

Matter Constitution

Nuclear physicists Interviews

Nuclear physics International cooperation

Particle accelerators

Particle beams, Colliding Experiments

Particles (Nuclear physics) Experiments

Proton-antiproton colliders

Quantum cosmology

Quantum field theory

Standard model (Nuclear physics)

Supercolliders France

Supercolliders Switzerland

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ISBN:

9781627894371

Description:

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
mixed
NTSC
video file
DVD video
all regions

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Other Title:

Particlefever

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 2013
Special features: customized video chapters and excerpts
Title from container
Producers, David E. Kaplan, Andrea Miller and Carla Solomon ; executive producers, Thomas Campbell Jackson and Gerry Ohrstrom ; cinematography, Claudia Raschke-Robinson and Wolfgang Held ; design and animation, MK12 ; editor, Walter Murch ; music, Robert Miller
Featuring: Martin Aleksa, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Monica Dunford, Fabiola Gianotti, David Kaplan, Mike Lamont, Peter Higgs
DVD ; all regions; NTSC ; 16:9 widescreen
For private home use only
Chiefly in English, with some French, German and Italian with English subtitles

Contents:

CERN 2007 - David meets Fabiola
Aspen Center for Physics talk
Experimentalists and Theorists
Monica explains the LHC
History of particle physics
The magnificent machine
First beam test
ATLAS start-up party
The accident
Discovery is a marathon
Sculpture garden - supersymmetry
Big problems - the multiverse
First high energy collisions
Summer of 140
Higgs discovery!

Control Number:

1865767

UPC:

841887025744

Other Authors:

Anthos Media, LLC, producer
Held, Wolfgang, 1963- director of photography
Kaplan, David E. (David Elazzar), 1968- producer, interviewee
Levinson, Mark A. (Mark Alan), director, producer
Miller, Andrea (Producer), producer
Miller, Robert (Composer), composer
Murch, Walter, 1943- editor of moving image work
PBS Distribution (Firm)
PF Pictures (Firm), producer
Raschke-Robinson, Claudia, director of photography
Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm), distributor
Solomon, Carla (Producer), producer

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