Video Structure for ATLAS Education/Outreach Committee

3 March 1998

Video Committee: Cornelius Daum, Jacques Visser, Lynn Silverman, Jiri Dolejsi, Erik Johansson, Michael Barnett

Issues: What audience(s)?
This is a pre-detector video.
Balance approaches: detailed versus exciting.
Student voices versus physicist voices.
Need early vision of detector?

NINE components of film - If too many, what to drop?

Please do not focus on details but on structure and overall content. At this stage, we would like to perhaps double the words in this description and then ask our director to comment and ask questions.

Perhaps an early image of detector and/or CERN ??

  1. Dutch Royal Palace - statue of ATLAS with world. Camera scans to world, then fades to Hubble Space Telescope pictures of so-called "Towers of Creation" and then to HST galaxy pictures and then zoom in.

    Exploring the cosmos.

    Narrator asks questions such as the following (moving from cosmology toward particle physics):

    • What happened in the first few seconds?
    • Is the universe expanding faster?
    • Is there a new force needed to explain this?
    • Is most of the universe made of unknown type of matter (dark matter) ?
    • If it began with matter and antimatter, where is the antimatter?
    • Why is visible universe made of protons, neutrons, and electrons (quarks and electrons)?
    • Why is proton much heavier than electron?
    • Why are there heavier clones of quarks and electrons that only existed in the seconds after the Big Bang?
    (with some thought, these and other questions can be worded to be more generally appealing)

  2. To answer these questions, we need energies approaching those of Big Bang
    • Scan from galaxies to Earth
    • Earth turns (with ATLAS countries highlighted) Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan, US, Western Europe
    • Scan in to Geneva --> CERN --> LHC
    • Animation of LHC (from boosters --> collisions)
    • Scan in to ATLAS --> collision (can use CAD pictures)

  3. When exploring new frontiers, there are surprises
    1. Columbus finding America
    2. DNA
    3. Galileo and Copernicus
    4. Einstein or others
    ATLAS will solve some known puzzles, but shocking new results are also possible, even a revolution in our thinking about our place in the universe

  4. A primary puzzle is the origin of mass
    • Some or all of the following:
      • Higgs party - enact it
      • Parker trolley - demonstration of symmetry breaking
      • Bubble analogy - film giant bubbles which reflect breaking of symmetry by a force (gravity)

  5. To explore these questions, need state-of-the-art technology
    • Focus on unique technologies and accomplishments, not on detector components, but show detector components while discussing technologies.
    • We need some good examples here; please suggest.
    • Animation of inner detector to one pixel (exists).
    • Speed of processing data: 10^9 collisions/sec, sorting, writing to tape.
    • Large size to contain event but see incredibly small vertices.
    • Etc.

  6. Animation of journey of particles from collision through layers of detector but no details.

  7. But how can 1850 physicists from 34 countries (most of whom are rarely at CERN) work together to build it?
    • Meet together, structured organizations, work separately in small groups, make decisions, build it, analyze data, make discoveries
    • Show pictures of people in cafeteria, in Building 40, at home institutions

  8. Students analyzing events - Hands on CERN (More discussion of outreach?)

  9. Summary (recall glimpses of important previous images)
    • tiny particles --> huge detector --> cosmos
    • What answer to mysteries?
    • What surprises?
    • Perhaps a revolution in our thinking?
    • Understanding the nature (even the future) of the universe
    • Understanding our place in the universe.