{"id":463,"date":"2019-06-11T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=463"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:32:52","slug":"june-cafe-scientifique-with-lars-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2019\/06\/11\/june-cafe-scientifique-with-lars-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"June Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Lars Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, June 25th<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>7:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0in the back room at\u00a0<strong>Yagger\u2019s Downtown<\/strong> (433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be <b>Dr. Lars Martin<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>From alpha to omega &#8211; particles and how we detect them<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ever since the discovery of the electron in the late 19th century, physicists have used detectors to measure and identify particles. While today&#8217;s detector systems &#8211; like ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider &#8211; are complex (and expensive) systems that detect obscure particles, the underlying principles of these detectors are relatively straightforward. The goal of this talk is to give attendees a basic understanding of what these machines actually do.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Martin works as a detector physicist at TRIUMF, most recently supporting the ALPHA-g antimatter gravity experiment at CERN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday, June 25th\u00a0at\u00a07:30pm\u00a0in the back room at\u00a0Yagger\u2019s Downtown (433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Lars Martin. From alpha to omega &#8211; particles and how we detect them Ever since the discovery of the electron in the late 19th century, physicists have used detectors to measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}