Repurposing the Large Hadron Collider
Repurposing the Large Hadron Collider
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 24th October 2014
- Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is mainly used to collide proton beams to search for and study elementary particles such as the Higgs boson. However a portion of its time is spent colliding heavy nuclei to study the collective behaviour of deconfined hadronic matter at extreme energy densities and temperatures, the Quark-Gluon Plasma.
This talk will introduce some of the varied beam physics governing the workings and performance limits of the particle accelerator itself and tell the story of how we made these collisions. There will be special emphasis on the hybrid proton-nucleus collisions, an unexpected and almost unprecedented mode of collider operation which recently yielded the largest jump in collision energy in the history of accelerators.
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