The Anatomy of Particle Detector

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 24th April 2025 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: Meeting Room

Claire MaIone will explore particle detectors which are to particle physicists as telescopes are to astronomers. They allow us to open a window into the inner workings of the Universe at the smallest length scales to understand it in terms of its fundamental constituents. But how exactly do they reveal to us the properties of the subatomic world in such extraordinary detail and with such remarkable agreement with theoretical predictions?

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Speaker: Claire Malone

Claire Malone is a science journalist based in London, UK, and a contributing columnist for Physics World and the STEM Lead for the Lightyear Foundation. She holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focused on developing novel techniques to search for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, in particular supersymmetry. Throughout her career, she has devised techniques to negotiate that she cannot use a pen/keyboard directly due to her physical disability. She is passionate about making science accessible to a wide audience and gave a TED talk about her research in 2021 which has now received almost 2 million views.

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