Friday, November 19, 2004, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
A. Clark, Geneva University
Abstract:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being constructed at CERN and from
2007 will provide proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of
14 TeV. The ATLAS detector is one of 2 general-purpose experiments
being built to collect data at the LHC.
The talk will attempt to convey the status of ATLAS construction, the
Swiss role in that construction, and the challenges posed by the
experiment. It will try to justify why physicists anxiously await data
from ATLAS and its sister experiment CMS.