LIGHT AND LUMINOSITY - Inauguration International Year of Light

Contribution List

0. AWARD CEREMONY OF THE EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT POETRY COMPETITION

2/4/15, 6:30 PM

Award ceremony of the POPSCIENCE Poetry Competition, launched at the 2014 Researchers Night in 4 languages (English, French, Italian and Spanish),inspired by the physics of the LHC and beyond: which attracted over 200 participants. Special participation: 52 pupils of the Collège International de Ferney-Voltaire, who produced drawings in addition to their poems. Their works have been assembled...

1. LIGHT and LUMINOSITY, from Einstein to LHC

Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Prof. Lucio Rossi (CERN)

2/4/15, 8:30 PM

After an introduction on the concept of light in physics, this talk will focus on CERN’s High Luminosity LHC project, aiming at extending the discovery potential of CERN’s flagship accelerator by increasing its “luminosity” (ie the number of particles that can be squeezed inside the accelerator to maximize the number of collisions). To achieve this objective, many new technologies are being...