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Adventures at low temperatures #2: It's just a phase

 

 

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We created this video for high-school students as a target audience. Therefore, we are using simplified explanations in some situations to make the content more accessible. If you want to dive deeper, you can take a look at the supplementary resources below.

External works referenced n this video: 
  • [1] Scanning for particle tracks in 1970.
  • [2] Physicist Studying Alpha Rays.
  • [3] Saclay 81 cm liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.
Sources and materials to go further: 
  • [1] HyperPhysics: Phase Change Concepts.
  • [2] Giorgio Parisi, *In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems.*
  • [3] Vsauce, Cooling down water by BOILING it.
  • [4] The Physics Hypertextbook: Phases.
  • [5] Jean-Michel Courty, Édouard Kierlik: Les chaufferettes chimiques.
  • [6] Philippe Lebrun, Laurent Tavian: Cooling with Superfluid Helium.
  • [7] Philippe Lebrun, Laurent Tavian: Quantum fluids at work: Superconductivity and superfluid helium at the Large Hadron Collider.
  • [8] Germana Riddone, Ralf Trant: The Compound Cryogenic Distribution Line for the LHC: Status and Prospects.
  • [9] The Action Lab, What Happens When a Liquid Turns Supercritical?.