COLLOQUIUM: The startup of the LHC and the very first collisions in the ATLAS detector
by
DrJonas Strandberg(KTH)
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Europe/Stockholm
Oscar Klein auditorium
Oscar Klein auditorium
Description
The last three months have seen the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
deliver its first collisions at 900 GeV, and later breaking the world
record for the most energetic man-made collisions ever. I will review
the excellent progress of the LHC leading up to the successful startup
in November last year and give you the latest news and plans for 2010
and beyond.
With 7 TeV collisions just around the corner, a large new window of
opportunity to see physics beyond the Standard Model is opening up. The
ATLAS detector has already recorded half a million collision events at
900 GeV which has provided a first look at the detector performance with
collision data and has allowed for mass peak reconstructions of several
of the lightest hadrons. In anticipation of the high-energy collisions
expected this spring I will review the first results coming out of ATLAS
during these exciting times, showing that ATLAS is well on its way to
take on the search for the Higgs Boson and new physics phenomena such as
Supersymmetry.