Harvey Newman: Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

We are about to embark on a new generation of exploration at the frontier of high energies as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) comes online at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland this fall. Caltech physicists and students, together with colleagues from universities and laboratories around the world are in the final stages of commissioning the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment.

Using CMS and the LHC, two of the most complex instruments ever devised, and new methods developed at Caltech, we are preparing to search for the Higgs particles thought to be responsible for mass in the universe, as well as for supersymmetry, evidence of extra spatial dimensions, excited states of electrons and muons, and other exotic new particles and forces of nature. This lecture will present a panorama of this work, and the road to discoveries that may emerge as early as the coming months.

Harvey Newman is Professor of Physics at Caltech.

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