It's an honor that only a handful of
Canadian students get to experience, but
UBC's undergraduate student Jeff Krupa
is one of them. I asked him about this
upcoming opportunity at CERN.
CERN is one of the premier particle physics research facilities in the world. It brings together
tens of thousands of physicists all
across the world to uh study some of the
fundamental questions like, "What is
everything made of, and how does it work." So these are core questions, and unanswered
questions in physics right now. What this
involves, is accelerating these particles
around this huge circle that they have
underground, and eventually colliding
them. In these collisions, they're
incredibly high energy and they give
insight into physics that we aren't able
to investigate it, in really any other
way. And they give insight into what the
early conditions of the universe were
and other interesting questions. The
internship is through the Institute of
Particle Physics, which brings together
all the particle physicists from around
Canada, and the program involves spending the first two months
at Triumph, Canada's National Research Lab for sub atomic and nuclear physics in
Vancouver.
There I'll be working on the project
called the Atlas Project. So, the Atlas
Project is investigating physics beyond
the Standard Model, so beyond what's
currently known. And my work there
will involve contributing, I believe, to
the project, and from there I'll travel
to Geneva Switzerland and half the time
there will be around learning from
particle physicists, and the other half
will be around contributing to the same
Atlas Project. I'm very excited it's a
great opportunity.
