SMP 11/13/04 | Heff Heff, A Herrible Higgsalump! (In Which A Trap is Set to Capture a Higgs) | Speaker: Dan Levin

Speaker: Dr. Dan Levin (U-M Physics)

In a cavern deep below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, construction crews are busy erecting the foundations of the ATLAS experiment. ATLAS is an international consortium with some 2,000 researchers, including a number of U-M physicists. When completed in 2007, the ATLAS detector will surround a collision point of intense, high energy proton beams. It will cross into a new frontier of inner space, probing dimensions smaller than a thousandth the size of a proton in the hunt for the Higgs boson--an important ingredient in our modern conception of particles and forces. We will examine the motivation and inner workings of ATLAS and describe how it could observe the elusive Higgs.

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All talks are free and refreshments will be served. Visitor parking for the seminars (Central Campus) is across the street from the Dennison Building in the U-M Church Street structure. There is a $2.00 parking charge implemented by U-M Parking Services.

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