10/22/15 Radio Show feat. Stephane Cooperstein, Particle Physicist

In this show we discuss the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, generally how particle physicists do what they do, and of course the Higgs boson. Stephane is part of the CMS detector group at Princeton and is actively working towards fully characterizing what’s called the Higgs boson “decay modes” (the different ways the Higgs could decay). We discuss it, so listen in!

(Playlist at the bottom, below the images.)

Below is a bubble chamber image, as discussed in the interview. Isn’t it beautiful?

But when we discuss “jets” we’re referring to something like this:

Some photos of the detector we discuss in the interview, and what Stephane works on, CMS.

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Modern Lovers	Astral Plane	Modern Lovers
Neko Case	Man	The Worse Things Get the harder I fight the harder I fight the more I love you	Anti, Inc
Menace Beach	Come on Give Up	Ratworld	Memphis Industries
Bratmobile	Throwaway	Pottymouth	Kill Rock Stars
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Sharkmuffin	Mondays	Chartreuse	Little Dickman Recrods
Young Fathers	Shame	White men are black men too	Big Dada
Worriers	Parts	Imaginary Life	Don Giovanni
Royal Headache	Need You	High	What’s your rupture?
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Joan Shelley	Not Over by Half	NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Noah Gundersen	Poor Man’s Son	N/A	Studio Litho
Denison Witmer	Stations	Of Joy and Sorrow	Antique Shades
<Break – talking with Stephane>
Daniel Bachman	Honeysuckle Reel	Jesus, I’m a Sinner	Tompkins Square
Tacocat	Bridge to Hawaii	NVM	Hardly Art
Bara Heida	I got your back	S/T?	Bara Heida
Flesh World	Poolside Boys	The Wild Animals in my life	Iron Lung Records
Potty Mouth	The Bomb	Potty Mouth EP	Planet Whatever
Marcus Mumford and Oscar Isaac	Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)	Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack	Nonesuch records
Downtown Boys	Dancing in the Dark	Full Communism	Don Giovanni
Horse Lords	All that is sold	Hidden Cities	NNA Tapes
Colleen Green	Deeper than love	I want to grow up	Hardly Art
Waxahatchee	La Loose	Ivy Tripp	Merge Records