Talks and presentations on the LHC and particle physics

Below are a collection of talks and presentations that may be of use if you are preparing a presentation for a public or schools audience. The authors have made these available on the understanding that others may use them (in whole or part). If you do use a talk please acknowledge the original author. You may also be interested to look at the 'ideas and demos' section, this includes analogies, practical activities and LHC facts.

Talks on the LHC, colliders, detectors and related physics from the BA Festival of Science 2007. 

The Large Hadron Collider. (14MB ppt) An example presentation on the LHC, suitable for a public audience, from Alan Barr (Oxford University).

Angels, demons and antimatter. (9.3MB ppt) A presentation based around Dan Brown's novel, suitable for school and public audiences, from Anna Starkey.

Talks on GridPP and 'Grids' in general on the GridPP website (scroll down to 'overviews' for talks for general audiences).