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The Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe

Public lecture at the University of Rochester

Monday April 26th 2010, 5.00 pm in Gowen Room, Wilson Commons

The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland has started operation this March at the highest energy ever achieved. A group of physicists and students from University of Rochester together with colleagues from universities and laboratories around the world have participated in the exciting startup of the LHC and the construction of the detectors, and are now leading several searches for new particles at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment.
Using CMS and the LHC, two of the most complex instruments ever devised, we hope to respond to some of the most puzzling questions about our universe, such as, what is responsible for the mass of elementary particles and whether there are new particles and forces to be observed at the higher energy. This public lecture will provide an entertaining introduction to the science of particle collisions, the links with cosmological observations, and what they might tell us about the nature of our Universe.

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