Stable Massive Particles in ATLAS -- Paul Jackson (SLAC) [Attention, jour exceptionnel!!!]

mardi 2 mars 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphi Grossetête (LPNHE)

High-energy physics is about to take a major step forward. This year, the Large Hadron Collider will begin to smash protons together at an energy of 7 TeV, more than triple the energy of the previous highest-energy machine, the Fermilab Tevatron. Two years later, collisions should reach the final energy of 14 TeV, and at much greater luminosities, opening a large new window of opportunity to observe as yet unseen heavy particles. The ATLAS detector, located at one of the four LHC collision points, is poised to collect the interesting collisions and reconstruct them in unprecedented detail. In this seminar I discuss the operational readiness of the ATLAS experiment and how ATLAS plans to look for stable massive particles through a series of exotic and challenging analyses.

Slides JacksonSeminar2010_LPNHE.pdf