Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session H5: Discovery Prospects at the Energy Frontier |
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Sponsoring Units: COM Chair: Harrison Prosper, Florida State University Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B |
Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
H5.00001: The Coming Revolution in Particle Physics Invited Speaker: Mysteries about the composition of our universe at its most fundamental level are fueling a revolution in particle physics. The nature of dark matter and dark energy, the disparity in gauge boson masses, the absence of primordial antimatter, and other observations make for an exciting period of likely discovery in the field. The physics program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the most likely venues for new discoveries that may shed light on these and other phenomena. I will present an overview of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and highlight a few examples of profoundly new views of the character of space and time that are predicted to reveal themselves in the early running period. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
H5.00002: Discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider Invited Speaker: The physics program at the LHC includes precision tests of the Standard Model (SM), the search for the SM Higgs boson, the search for the MSSM Higgs bosons, the search for Super Symmetry, sensitivity to alternative scenarios such as compositeness, large extra dimensions, etc. This requires general purpose detectors with excellent performance. ATLAS and CMS are general purpose detectors under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Data taking is expected to start in April 2007. The detector performance and the prospects for discoveries are studied in various physics and detector performance working groups. In this talk, we will review the discovery prospects of the LHC. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
H5.00003: Testing the top quark lifetime Invited Speaker: Experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron are collecting large and exceptionally pure samples of top quarks, and performing measurements to confirm that the particle discovered in $p\bar{p}$ collisions a decade ago is the anticipated sixth quark. One unambiguous test is a measurement of the top quark lifetime, which is constrained by the consistency of the Standard Model to be less than $10^{-24}$ s. I will describe a search for anomalous decay lengths in $t\bar{t}$-like events observed with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), and report a first direct limit on the $t$ quark lifetime. [Preview Abstract] |
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