Description
Physicists Rolf Ent from Jefferson Lab, and Richard Milner from MIT, together with animator James LaPlante from Sputnik Animation, have created a 10 minute video that illustrates the important role played by spin in understanding the order and fundamental structure of matter.
The video follows up on the earlier work of animations of the proton and atomic nucleus. It shows how spin is responsible for the periodic table of the chemical elements, the shell model of the nucleus and the quark structure of the proton, neutron and other elementary particles. The video explains how current and future large accelerator facilities will address fundamental open questions using spin. We credit photos from Brookhaven National Laboratory, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Jefferson Lab. The work was made possible by funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.