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SUMMARY:Seeing the invisible\; the Dark Matter puzzle. - Dr Tina Potter\, 
 Cavendish Laboratory
DTSTART:20200311T193000Z
DTEND:20200311T203000Z
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CONTACT:Tommy Tai
DESCRIPTION:Dark Matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science today. As
 tronomical observations tell us Dark Matter makes up 27% of our universe a
 nd experiences the the gravitational force\, yet we still know very little
  beyond this. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is mankind's biggest
  experiment in history\, with over 10\,000 scientists coming together from
 \naround the world to try and understand some of the long-standing questio
 ns in science. The LHC has already been extraordinarily successful with th
 e discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson that explains the origins of mass\,
  and continues to search for new\, exotic particles that could explain Dar
 k\nMatter. \n\nI will introduce the LHC and the largest of the four main d
 etectors\, ATLAS. I'll show you how and why we search for a rich array of 
 new particles predicted by Supersymmetry and the latest results from these
  searches. As the LHC program moves into its final stage\, what further se
 crets of the universe will we uncover?\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr Tina Potte
 r is a Fellow at Newnham College. Her personal research interests lie in t
 he discovery of new physics beyond the Standard Model\, particularly\, Dar
 k Matter. She is searching for signs of new particles that may briefly for
 m in the high energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
 . Primarily\, her research focuses on the design of novel and sensitive se
 arches for new physics\, such as Supersymmetry\, using the ATLAS detector.
  Supersymmetry offers a potential solution by introducing many new particl
 es\, the lightest of which is an excellent dark matter candidate. Her rese
 arch also involves understanding the potential for the discovery or charac
 terisation of new physics scenarios at future colliders.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Ro
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