• 2009
Fermilab

Summary Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory studies the properties and interactions of sub atomic particles. Presented here are the stories of the behavior these particles deep in the heart of the atom. If you're expecting this tiny realm to be strange you won't be disappointed. View more details

  • 2009

Fermilab

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Stars : Don Lincoln Kristy Duffy Heidi Schellman Ann Heinson

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 9, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Fermilab

Summary Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory studies the properties and interactions of sub atomic particles. Presented here are the stories of the behavior these particles deep in the heart of the atom. If you're expecting this tiny realm to be strange you won't be disappointed. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 9, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Fermilab

Episodes

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Mar 18, 2009
Single Top Quark
In honor of the discovery of the single top quark Fermi lab commissioned a top quark plush toy that reverses into it's decay products. It's so cute.
Jul 04, 2016
Quantum Color
The concept of a color charge resolves the conundrum of quarks apparently having the same state in baryons which is no permitted by the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Mar 09, 2017
The Weak Nuclear Force: Through the looking glass
In 1956 Ms. Chien Shiung Wu demonstrated that the weak nuclear force caused reactions of antimatter particles with quantum spin in only one direction and matter particles in the other direction. This was a tremendous shock to the physics community as the other forces don't care about quantum spin. Sadly the Nobel Prize for this discovery did not recognize Ms. Wu.
Mar 22, 2017
The Weak Nuclear Force: Quantum Chameleon
The weak nuclear force causes changes in the flavor of leptons; quarks, neutrinos and the electron family. But only the electrically charged W bosons, that are the forces carriers of the weak force, have been found to cause flavor changes. The Z bosons have not and physicists wonder why not.
Apr 13, 2017
Why is the Weak Force weak?
In beta decay a neutron releases a W boson, the charge carrier of the weak nuclear force, to become a proton. But this only occurs if the W boson has a very low mass compared to it's 'normal' mass which is highly improbable. So the weak force appears weak. In contrast the Top quark has a mass larger than the W boson so it decays to a bottom quark almost instantly and the weak force appears strong relative to the other fundamental forces.
May 04, 2017
Sterile neutrinos and seesaws
Sterile particles do not respond to the weak nuclear force. This comes into play with neutrinos because all neutrinos physicists have ever seen have a quantum spin arbitrarily referred to as left and respond to the week force. But right spinning neutrinos might exist if they are sterile.
Aug 01, 2017
Introducing the top quark
Mike Albrow shares his experience discovering the Top quark.
Jan 21, 2019
Everything you need to know about Fermilab
An introduction to Fermilab; its facilities, projects and some surprises.
Jan 07, 2020
What really happened at the Big Bang?
Don notes that many of the comments he receives questioning the big bang often reflect a misunderstanding of the theory rather than a logical argument to refute it. So to give the skeptics a better foundation on which to mount their challenges he tries to dispel the misconceptions.
Mar 30, 2020
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
There are three general ideas about how the universe came to be. First, our universe existed in static form then began expanding. Second, static universes collided causing our universe to expand. Third, universes are created by splitting off from existing universes.
Oct 20, 2020
28 Subatomic Stories: Before the Big Bang
Scientists have no theory to identify what happened before the Big Bang, at the moment of the Big Bang or even before the Planck Time. There are plenty of ideas, and knowing quantum theory as we do, the reality could be terribly strange to us, but it's all informed speculation at this point.
Jun 21, 2021
The Solar Neutrino Problem: Even Bananas 08
Here's the story of the discovery of neutrino oscillation beginning with Ray Davis's phenomenon of the missing Solar neutrinos. Later, scientists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory figured out how to measure all the neutrinos types produced by the sun and their results matched both theory and Ray Davis's results for electron neutrinos.
Jul 12, 2021
A bunch of neutrino questions: Even Bananas 09
Here are the answers to some viewer questions about neutrinos. In addition to the composition of custard here are some of bigger revelations. The is a cosmic neutrino background from one second after the big bang that scientists would love to be able to detect. Neutrinos can be destroyed. Neutrinos may be their own antiparticle.
Aug 09, 2021
How do neutrino oscillations work? Even Bananas 10
Sep 08, 2021
The super bizarre quantum eraser experiment
If the double slit experiment confused you take a minute to review it because It's about to get lots more complicated and we're going to mess with time. After the photons pass through the slits let's split them into two beams so we can use two set of detectors. And you can turn on or off one set of detectors to change the behavior of the light from a particle to a wave before the photon know which they're supposed to be.
Sep 15, 2021
How do We Study Neutrino Oscillation? Even Bananas
Kristy and Anne explain Fermilab's Numi Off-Axis Neutrino (V) Appearance 'NOVA' experiment. It consists of a beam of electron neutrinos and a near detector which counts the neutrinos and a far detector that detects mostly muon neutrinos because it is placed at a distance where oscillations are expected to have occurred.
Mar 31, 2022
How can a photon have momentum?
Photons have momentum because they have energy. But here'a a more formal explanation.
Oct 18, 2022
How fast do neutrinos travel? | Even Bananas
Neutrinos travel as close as we can measure to the speed of light. But as they travel they changes flavor which takes time. So they are thought to travel slower that light if only slightly.
Nov 29, 2022
How fast is gravity?
How physicists used colliding black holes to determine the speed of gravity.
Jun 01, 2023
Do photons experience time?
Here is how relativity deals with photos, the only particle know to travel at the speed of light.
Jan 02, 2024
Fermilab's Search for Sterile Neutrinos
An overview of the next phase of neutrino research a Fermilab.
Jan 08, 2024
Are neutrinos their own antiparticle? | Even Bananas
So far none of the particles that are their own antiparticle, like the photon, have mass. But that assumption has not been tested for the neutrino because it's really hard to determine. The extremely rare reaction of neutrinoless double beta decay could answer the question if enough of there reactions can be observed.
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