The Large Hadron Collider – the story so far
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Mon, 15/11/2010 12:00 |
Alan Barr (Oxford) |
String Theory Seminar  |
L3 |
| String theory has a vested interest in a particular S1xS1 object found just outside Geneva. The machine in question has been colliding protons at high energy since March this year, and by now the ATLAS and CMS experiments have clocked up more than 10^12 high-energy events. In this seminar I present the status of the accelerator and detectors, highlight the major physics results obtained so far, and discuss the extent to which information from the LHC can inform us about TeV-scale theory. | |||