The show is addressed at non-physicists aged 14+ and communicates basic concepts of elementary particle physics including the discovery of the Higgs boson in an entertaining fashion, bringing to the stage 28 live demonstration experiments. The show is set up as a quest, where 2 students from Bonn with the aid of a caretaker travel back in time to understand the fundamental nature of matter. They visit Rutherford and Geiger in Manchester around 1911, who recount their famous experiment on the nucleus and show how particle detectors work. They travel forward in time to meet Lawrence at Berkeley around 1950, teaching them about the how and why of accelerators. Next, they visit Wu at DESY, Hamburg, around 1980, who explains the strong force. They end up in the LHC tunnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland in 2012. Two experimentalists tell them about colliders and our heroes watch live as the Higgs boson is produced and decays.
The show will be performed at Cankarjev Dom on Monday September 23rd, at 11.30 for high school students, and at 18.00 for the general public.
In addition, the group from Bonn will hold a training session for local students, postdocs and professors on Wednesday September 25th, by sharing their experience and guiding the participants with some hands-on fun experiments. Please register for the training session using the link on the left.