SatStream, Groovy Gecko and Yospace have teamed up to provide live streaming of the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, run by CERN, to mobiles and PCs.
The LHC, which is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles, is scheduled to collide its proton beams for the first time at the record energy of 7 TeV on 30 March. Its four major experiments, ATLAS, CMS, Alice and LHCb, aim to provide answers to unresolved mysteries of physics such as dark matter, antimatter and the existence of the Higgs Boson, the so-called God Particle.
The satellite downlink will be handled from SatStreams broadcast-standards facility in London, where the footage will be transcoded, ready for live streaming over the web by Groovy Gecko. Yospace will handle the live streaming to mobile.
Our work with the LHC is vital for physicists to gain (a) better understanding of the world in which we live, says CERNs Thomas Baron. We feel that it also has wide public appeal and interest and therefore we wanted to make the experiment fully accessible. The combination of SatStream, Groovy Gecko, and Yospace has enabled us to do just that.
The live stream will be available tomorrow at http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics beginning at 8:30am Central European Summer Time. The main webcast will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four LHC experiments, plus coverage of the press conference after the first collisions are announced. Webcasts will also be available from the control rooms of the four LHC experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb.
To fill the gaps between the various experiments, there are a couple of round table discussions you may want to tune into. Dark Matter, Supersymmetry, Black Holes and Antimatter starts at 12.30pm, while Societal Benefits of Particle Physics kicks off at 2.30pm. Each lasts 10 minutes.