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Particle Collisions - Ep. 1/3: Why do we need so many?

Name: Particle Collisions - Ep. 1/3: Why do we need so many?
Uploaded: 2026-10-09T08:09:56.000Z
Channel: CERN
Description: Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider happen millions of times every second. But why do physicists need so many? In the first episode of Particle Collisions, we explore the randomness in particle physics and just how rare the things that we look for can be. #HiLumiLHC

The Brief

Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider happen millions of times every second.
The episode asks why physicists need so many collisions.
It explores the randomness in particle physics.
It covers how rare the processes physicists look for can be.

Why watch · It explains why huge numbers of collisions are needed to find rare particle physics events.

Large Hadron Collider
Particle collisions
HL-LHC

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Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider happen millions of times every second. But why do physicists need so many? In the first episode of Particle Collisions, we explore the randomness in particle physics and just how rare the things that we look for can be. #HiLumiLHC