Large Hadron Collider

Dan Green, FNAL

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being completed at CERN will have two large multipurpose detectors, ATLAS and CMS. These detectors embody an advance in the state of the art for hadron collider detectors. They will be used to confront the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. Specifically, a Standard Model Higgs boson will be searched. In addition, if suspersymmetry (SUSY) is the mechanism by which the Higgs mass is radiatively stabilized, then SUSY particles will be observed at the LHC, probably quite soon after first beam. The planned LHC upgrades ensure a decades long program for the LHC at the energy/luminosity frontier.

The P/T Colloquium is
typically held each
Thursday, 3:45–5:00 PM.

Collaborations and Refreshments, 3:15 PM.