Professor Deiter Haidt, Don Perkin's collaborator on the Gargamelle project at CERN, details the seminal contributions of Don Perkins to neutrino physics and the Standard Model.
Don Perkins and Neutral Currents
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Professor Deiter Haidt details the contributions of Don Perkins to neutrino physics and the discovery of neutral currents. Professor Haidt speaks about Perkins' involvement in the neutrino program at CERN and the challenges faced in proving the existence of neutral currents against the backdrop of neutron background events. He discusses the Gargamelle bubble chamber experiment, which played a crucial role in the discovery, and the subsequent validation of the findings despite initial skepticism from the scientific community. This discovery had a significant impact on high-energy physics, leading to the restructuring of programs at major laboratories to explore the new force, and contributed to the establishment of the Standard Model in physics. This talk also highlights the simplicity of physics as emphasized by Perkins and the complexities introduced by the scientific community.
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The seven talks in this event celebrate the life and work of Professor Donald ‘Don’ Perkins CBE FRS (1925 – 2022), who during his extensive and prolific career played a key role in the development of particle physics research since the 1940’s when the electron, proton and neutron were the only known fundamental particles to the discovery of the Higgs boson in the early 2000’s.
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