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SUMMARY:The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview\, Motivation and
  Status of the Project - Professor Peter Jenni\,  CERN
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:The Large Hadron Collider LHC at the European Laboratory for P
 article Physics CERN near Geneva will deliver particle collisions at the h
 ighest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. After more than 15 years of d
 esign and construction efforts the LHC and its experiments are finally sta
 rting operation. Besides the giant accelerator\, which is installed in a r
 ing tunnel of 27 km length about 100 m underground\, the no less impressiv
 e and complex detectors are ready for data taking. \nAfter a brief introdu
 ction to the LHC\, a general overview of one of the key-experiments\, ATLA
 S\, will be given. The LHC will allow ATLAS to study for the first time fu
 ndamental physics phenomena as they occurred very shortly after the Big Ba
 ng. ATLAS will address questions like: why have particles a mass\, what is
  the non-visible dark matter in the Universe\, are there more than four di
 mensions in Nature\, what are the smallest building blocks of matter? The 
 expectations for new discoveries are high\, since decades physicists are e
 agerly awaiting this exploratory step into the unknown.\nThe ATLAS detecto
 r has been developed and constructed by a world-wide collaboration\, and a
  team from the Cavendish Laboratory has contributed to the project since i
 ts conception some 20 years ago. Some highlights of the construction and c
 ommissioning of the detector will be illustrated\, as well as examples of 
 anticipated discovery signals.\n\nSpeaker: Peter Jenni (CERN\, Spokesperso
 n ATLAS Collaboration)\n
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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