Icrea Call
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By: Mario Martínez (ICREA at IFAE) and Manuel Delfino (PIC)
When: 10th November 2015, 18:00h
Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor
Abstracts:
Mario Martínez
Results from the LHC Run II
After two years of shutdown, devoted to repairs and improvements, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN resumed operations in June 2015 to deliver collisions between protons with an increased centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. This opens a new era in the exploration of particle physics at the energy frontier and it brings the opportunity for new discoveries. After the discovery of the Higgs boson in Run I, the LHC experiments at CERN will continue the search for dark matter, super-symmetry, extra spatial dimensions, and new fundamental phenomena in general. In addition, a full program of precise measurements in the Higgs sector will take place. A comprehensive review of early Run II results by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN will be given.
Manuel Delfino
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid: Riding the computing technology wave to enable the Higgs boson discovery
The World Wide Web was invented at CERN in 1991. Construction of CERN’s LHC was approved in 1994. Building the data processing system required by LHC’s detectors in 1994 would have costed more than the accelerator itself. CERN and data centres from around the world started collaborating in 1999 to prototype and deploy the LHC Computing Grid, the first planetary scale high performance data processing system, which enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. A review will be made of these developments, and their relationship to current areas of interest in data processing, such as «Big Data» and digitally supported collaborative science.
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