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Finding dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider

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In this fascinating talk theoretical physicist Ben Allanach talks about the search for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, including a generous helping of information on the Higgs boson. Ben gave the talk on 19 June 2015 to an audience of school students aged 16-17 as part of a mathematics enrichment event at the University of Cambridge.

If you prefer read, the see the abridged version of this talk.

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