First Biennial African Conference on Fundamental Physics and Applications

The Large Hadron Collider and Experiments

Not scheduled

15m

Auditorium 1, Brahms Street (Namibia University of Science and Technology)

Oral Presentation Accelerator, Medical and Radiation Physics

Speaker

David Bertsche (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Description

The Large Hadron Collider Project (LHC) at CERN is one of the largest and most ambitious scientific experiments ever conducted. Planning for and operation of the accelerator and its many experiments has spanned several decades, and will span several more. This talk focuses on the technological details of how the accelerator and the major particle detection systems function. It also covers some of the instrumentation upgrades planned in the near future.