LHC — Journey to the Heart of Matter

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Speaker(s): Anyes Taffard

The start-up of the newest and most powerful particle accelerator has started.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in Physics. The scale and complexity of this undertaking are so large it required a truly global effort to realize. The LHC will permit exploration of the fundamental nature of matter and forces by creating conditions similar to those just after the Big Bang.I will introduce some of the questions this instrument is aimed at probing and present some of the challenges of the start-up phase for both the accelerator and the detectors.

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.