Particle Fever

Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at CERN who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHCs results. The film begins in 2008 with the first firing of the LHC and concludes in 2012 with the successful identification of the Higgs boson.

The film is composed of two narrative threads. One follows the large team of experimental physicists at CERN as they try to get the LHC running properly. After a promising initial test run, the LHC suffers a liquid helium leak in 2008 that damages its electromagnets. Fabiola Gianotti, Martin Aleksa, and Monica Dunford are all shown discussing how to handle the negative publicity surrounding the accident, and how to proceed. After repairs in 2009, the LHC begins to run experiments again at half power.The other thread follows the competing theories of Nima ArkaniHamed and his mentor Savas Dimopoulos. In the film, ArkaniHamed advocates for the multiverse theory, which predicts the mass of the Higgs boson to be approximately 140 gigaelectronvolts. Dimopoulos argues for the moreestablished supersymmetry theory, which predicts the mass of the Higgs boson to be approximately 115 GeV. ........

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