180-Minute Symposium

180-022

High-Energy Physics Discoveries: From the Tevatron to the Large Hadron Collider

Session Start/End Time:

Sunday, Feb 15, 2009, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

HRC Regency C

The very-high-energy proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron and proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are meant to dissect matter and space-time itself into its primary elements and generators. The experiments at the Tevatron and the LHC by synthesizing the information from the debris of the collisions are reconstituting the interactions that took place. The experiments at the Tevatron and the LHC are at the closest point of addressing in the lab some of the most puzzling fundamental observations in nature today such as the dark matter of the universe. This symposium will review the results from the Tevatron’s largest-ever hadron collision data sets as the frontier energy baton is being passed to the LHC, the machine of unprecedented scale and complexity that will determine the future of the discipline of high-energy physics. The LHC starts operation in the summer of 2008, and the symposium will report on the machine and the two general purpose experiments: A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS) and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS).

Organized by:

Maria Spiropulu, CERN ( European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland;Joseph Lykken, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

Presentations:

  Symposium Organizer--Maria Spiropulu, CERN ( European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland

  Symposium Co-Organizer--Joseph Lykken, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

  Closing in on the Higgs with the Tevatron Data--Dmitri Denisov, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

  Discoveries with the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab--Jacobo Konigsberg, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

  The Large Hadron Collider: First Beams--Lyn Evans, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment--Tejinder Virdee, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  The ATLAS Experiment--Marzio Nessi, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  Discussant--Pier Oddone, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL