BNL Newsroom | Brookhaven National Laboratory Presents "Particle Fever" Movie Screening

As science experiments go, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) breaks nearly every record. It's the largest, most powerful particle accelerator in the world, and the work produced by the atom smasher resulted in the biggest particle physics news of the 21st century – the discovery of the Higgs boson – and a Nobel Prize in 2013.

"Particle Fever," a documentary from physicist-turned-filmmaker Mark Levinson, takes audiences behind the scenes of the experiments at the LHC near Geneva, Switzerland. Thousands of scientists, including over 100 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and nearby Stony Brook University, have spent decades designing, building, and running this 17-mile underground particle racetrack, where protons accelerate to nearly the speed of light and crash together revealing how fundamental particles interact. 

BNL Newsroom | Brookhaven National Laboratory Presents "Particle Fever" Movie Screening