SEMINAR
The Large Hadron Collider: The Big Bang Machine
Albert De Roeck
(CERN)
Sala P2, IST, EdifĂcio Matemática
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Abstract
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, which will start its
operation end of 2009, is one
of the largest and most complex scientific instruments ever built by mankind. The LHC
will produce head-on
collisions of protons from the two beams that circulate in opposite directions with each
an energy of the protons
of 3.5 TeV initially and 5 TeV later in 2010. In these collisions energy is converted
into matter and we expect
to produce and see for the first time new heavy particles which have lived only very
shortly after the Big Bang.
This presentation will discuss the status of the LHC and its main experiments, its
schedule of expected operation
in the near future, and in its physics program. The huge experimental challenges will be
presented and a several
highlights of the physics program will be discussed in more detail. These include the
search for the Higgs particle,
and in particular the search for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle
physics, which includes
Supersymmetry, Extra Space Dimensions and the possible production of more Exotic new
particles. The findings at
the LHC experiment may well create a revolution in our understanding of the elementary
building blocks of matter
and the forces that rule them.
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