Bulletin of the American Physical Society
76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS
Volume 54, Number 16
Wednesday–Saturday, November 11–14, 2009; Atlanta, Georgia
Session JB: Future Experiments at the LHC |
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Chair: Bradley Cox, University of Virginia Room: Frankfurt |
Friday, November 13, 2009 1:30PM - 2:00PM |
JB.00001: Status and Prospects of the CMS experiment Invited Speaker: The start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will open the door on a wide vista of physics at high energy, allowing for studies on the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking, and possibly physics beyond the Standard Model. The LHC will provide proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV in 2009, and 10 TeV thereafter (with an ultimate collision energy of 14 TeV). The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is a general-purpose experiment optimized to take advantage of a wide range of physics opportunities in the LHC environment. The detector construction is complete, and a large sample of cosmic ray events has been acquired for detailed commissioning studies, which will continue with the LHC beam. This report will update the current status of the CMS experiment, the functioning performance of its subsystems, and the prospects for early measurements in the early LHC data. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 2:00PM - 2:30PM |
JB.00002: The ATLAS experiment at the LHC: Status and Physics Prospects Invited Speaker: The Large Hardon Collider (LHC) at CERN is now scheduled to begin operation late in 2009 at proton energies of 3.5 TeV. The LHC will open up a new energy regime in high-energy particle physics and it is likely that discoveries made at the experiments that analyse the LHC data will change the way we understand our universe. I will review the readiness of the ATLAS experiment for proton-proton collision data at the LHC, and the prospects for the much anticipated physics that will result from these collisions. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 2:30PM - 3:00PM |
JB.00003: The ALICE Experiment at CERN Invited Speaker: The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will study the properties of the hot, dense nuclear matter created in high energy nuclear collisions in order to improve our understanding of the novel properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions. ALICE is designed for precision measurements in the high multiplicity environment of heavy-ion collisions. Key aspects of the detector design are presented. The preparation of the detector for measurements in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 3.5 TeV and 5 TeV in the first run at the LHC and in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV in 2010 are presented. The physics program for the first few years is discussed. These measurements will improve our understanding of nuclear matter and test our understanding of QCD in novel regimes of the phase diagram of nuclear matter. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 3:00PM - 3:30PM |
JB.00004: New Physics Searches with Early LHC Data Invited Speaker: I will discuss the prospects for new physics searches with the early LHC data. I will review several new physics scenarios which lead to signatures that are rich in leptons and/or photons and may be observable in the early LHC data. I will also discuss the possibility of measuring the masses and spins of the new particles in events with missing transverse energy. [Preview Abstract] |
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