Time: Thursday 21 May 2015 – 1:00pm
Place: Science Lecture Theatre S12, 16 Rainforest Walk (map)

#RestartLHC: Colliding Protons in 2015

Dr Paul Jackson, University of Adelaide

CERN, situated just outside Geneva, Switzerland, is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful probe of the experimental physics frontier and the largest scientific instrument ever built. The LHC collides proton together, viewed by vast particle detectors specially designed to interrogate this unique environment. In 2015, the LHC will perform collisions at almost twice the energy previously achieved – 13 trillion electron volts.

I will introduce the LHC and the ATLAS detector, touch on how they work, and what we do with them. I will continue with a brief review of some key aspects of the ATLAS physics program thus far. The talk will conclude with a look into the unknown and a discussion of what the LHC may have to say about the discovery of new particles and the identity of the mysterious Dark Matter that pervades the universe.

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