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SUMMARY:What's happening at the LHC (and what it will tell us about TeV-sc
 ale theory - Alan Barr (Dept of Physics\, Oxford University)
DTSTART:20101013T131500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jock McOrist
DESCRIPTION:After decades of preparation\, the Large Hadron Collider at CE
 RN\, Geneva recorded its first high energy proton-proton collisions in Mar
 ch of this year. A major commissioning and calibration programme has been 
 under way since\, which has demonstrated excellent performance both of the
  LHC accelerator and of the detectors. The experimental collaborations hav
 e not only made early measurements of Standard Model processes\, their res
 earch has moved into terra incognita\, with recent publications of searche
 s for particles beyond those of the Standard Model. In this seminar I will
  summarize the current status of the experiments\, outline their near-term
  plans\, and discuss how the experimental results can later be used to con
 strain theoretical models\, particularly those models containing heavy und
 etectable particles - i.e. dark matter candidates.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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