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ASP Online Seminars: “The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond—History of ATLAS and the LHC (2)

Name: ASP Online Seminars: “The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond—History of ATLAS and the LHC (2)
Start: 2020-07-28T14:30:00+00:00
End: 2020-07-28T16:00:00+00:00
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by Peter Jenni (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Tuesday 28 Jul 2020, 14:30 → 16:00 Africa/Abidjan

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https://cern.zoom.us/j/95193567359?pwd=TzdPQWsyWXlSTy9RNXFoa1FhL2xqQT09

Meeting ID: 951 9356 7359

Abstract:

The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond:

Some History of ATLAS and the LHC

Peter Jenni, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, and CERN

Since 2010 the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN investigate particle physics at the highest collision energies ever achieved in a laboratory. The highly mediated discovery of the Higgs boson predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, announced in July 2012, was the result of a long and fascinating story at the LHC. The first part of this talk will recall the history of the project, mentioning also briefly previous generations of hadron colliders preparing the way to the high-energy frontier with LHC, and illustrate some of the many milestones that finally led to the H discovery by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. In the second part, the focus will shift towards a few highlights of ATLAS results obtained so far, and some outlook. The history talk is a tribute to more than 25 years of the ATLAS experiment and to 10 years of outstanding operation of the LHC.