What's the MATTER?
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hello, It's been a while! University work has taken over all my time recently, but semester one and exams are overrrr so I'm back and have some (hopefully) interesting post ideas lined up! :) Last semester I completed a particle physics lab project which I found super super interesting, so I thought I would attempt to explain some of the basic concepts for you! The LHCb detector at CERN This experiment was six weeks long and I completed it with my lab partner. We used data which was collected from the LHCb experiment at CERN. CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research and aims to find out what our Universe is made up of. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator and the LHCb experiment is one of four particle detectors conducting experiments. The 'b' stands for a type of particle called 'beauty quark' or 'b quark' as commonly known. (Will discuss quarks more