A Rutherford Celebration event
2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Lectures
CERN
Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 18:00
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Room M1
The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and
telescope
100 years after Rutherford, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will
take the world to a new level in its understanding of the structure of
matter and the workings of the universe, by recreating collisions that took
place between particle of matter when the universe was a trillionth of a
second old. It will reveal why particles have mass, and may reveal the
nature of the dark matter that fills the universe, perhaps even the origin
of matter itself.
Friday, October 24th 2008, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
What may we expect from the LHC?
Beams have now been put into the LHC, and the first collisions are expected
soon. What can be expected from the LHC in the coming months and years? 100
years after Rutherford, the LHC will probe the inner structure of matter
and the nature of the fundamental interactions, and it may also cast light
on many cosmological problems. Within the Standard Model of particle
physics, the LHC's primary objective is the Higgs boson, which is thought
to be responsible for the masses of the elementary particles. Beyond the
Standard Model, the LHC may discover supersymmetry or extra space-time
dimensions, and reveal the nature of dark matter.
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