Early Morning Coffee at CERN

From the birth of quantum mechanics 100 years ago to its latest tests in high-energy proton collisions, we explore how the weirdness of the quantum world continues to unfold—one quark pair at a time.

Join us as we dive in this podcast episode of Early Morning Coffee at CERN (Emc2) into the fascinating world of LHCb, the LHC's beauty experiment, with two leading experimentalists, Yasmine Amhis and Patrick Koppenburg. We explore how the LHCb experiment is probing CP violation to studying hadrons containing b and c quarks. Discover what makes LHCb unique—its asymmetric design and its remarkabl...

How can the Large Hadron Collider turn lead into primordial soup and why? Join us as we dive into the world of heavy ion collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this episode, we connect with an expert from the LHC’s Beam Operations team and a researcher from the ALICE experiment to uncover the science behind colliding lead ions instead of protons. What does it take to vapourize le...

On Dark Matter Day, discover how scientists at CERN are using cutting-edge technology and computing to tackle one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Take a deep dive into the past, present and future of Higgs-boson research at CERN. Tune in to a special podcast on the occasion of the enigmatic boson’s 12th anniversary. In this episode, 00:00 Teaser 00:13 Intro 03:29 4 July 2012 07:38 Why was this important? 14:29 Behind the discovery 28:19 Bosons and fermions 30:23 Books and metaphors 33:02 Since the discovery 37:47 High-Luminosity LHC 40:...

The Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast brings you the hottest science topics straight from the scientists of CERN. Get a sneak peek into the new podcast series, Emc2, with a teaser of our pilot episode. Contributors Executive Producer: Jacques Fichet Director and Producer: Chetna Krishna Host: Steven Goldfarb Social Correspondent: Joni Pham Technical Lead: Ron Suykerbuyk Studio Manager: ...