Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009; Denver, Colorado
Session L2: On the Threshold of the LHC |
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University Room: Plaza D |
Sunday, May 3, 2009 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
L2.00001: The LHC and Cosmology Invited Speaker: |
Sunday, May 3, 2009 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
L2.00002: The Role of US Groups in LHC Physics Invited Speaker: U.S. groups have been involved in the LHC for the last fifteen years and have participated in the design, construction, installation and commissioning of the ATLAS and CMS detectors and the LHC accelerator. During this period U.S. groups have been integral to the overall effort and indeed comprise the largest national group within the detector collaborations. In the future these groups will take on operations tasks and R{\&}D plans for detector upgrades. Thus, the U.S. effort will be an extended commitment, decades long. Nevertheless, the methods whereby U.S. groups will play a proportionate role in the physics analyses are less clear. LHC data and computing resources will be spread worldwide. What collaborative tools will allow U.S. groups to fully participate in the expected rich LHC physics? Should there be multiple analysis centers within the large and distributed ATLAS and CMS collaborations? As high energy physics looks ahead to having fewer energy frontier facilities similar issues will arise in the future which makes these questions of more general interest. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, May 3, 2009 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
L2.00003: Exploring the Energy Frontier; Looking Beyond LHC Discoveries Invited Speaker: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will soon deliver long awaited data at the Terascale (TeV energy scale). Discoveries are expected to illuminate the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking and the origin of mass, and could reveal other new phenomena such as dark matter particles, extra spatial dimensions, and advances toward grand unification. The LHC data will guide the direction of future exploration, motivating the next facilities. If the energy scale of new physics is within its reach, as widely expected, the International Linear Collider (ILC), with its characteristic precision, should be the next machine for particle physics. I will review the physics opportunity of the ILC, the world-wide effort to realize it, and the detector R\&D program to develop the needed new capabilities for the precision measurements. Should Nature be unyielding at the LHC, higher energy lepton colliders might provide the needed complementarity. This will also be discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
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