26/07/2016
Adam Walton talks quarks and gluons with the Swansea team organising a major conference for the world's leading particle physicists.
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How good is your maths?
Probably not quite as good as our guests on Science Café this week. Profs Gert Aarts and Biagio Lucini are the organisers behind Lattice 2016 - a major, international conference on particle physics being held in Southampton this month. Their colleague at Swansea University, Prof Simon Hands, is organising a satellite conference in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) to follow on.
The three are members of the pioneering, Particle Physics Theory Group at Swansea University, who press their expansive mental agility to the tiniest matter and make sense of mind-boggling calculations. Together they guide Adam through their world of quarks and gluons, which make up hadrons like protons and neurons, and explain how 'QCD' works.
Broadcasts
- Tue 26 Jul 2016 18:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Wales
- Sun 31 Jul 2016 06:31³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Wales