LHC Paperfest

Thursday May 26, 2022, 10:30 AM → 7:00 PM Europe/London

An unprecedented scientific milestone was recently reached - 1000 peer-reviewed papers have been published from each of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and over 600 from the LHCb experiment. We propose a day to celebrate the LHC science and technology story so far.  This will be a retrospective of the LHC science and technology, and a look ahead to the new technologies and the science questions at the LHC in the years to come.

Coffee at 10.30am

Presentations 11am-5.30pm

Reception at 5.30pm

Dinner to follow

1 Coffee

2 Welcome - what is a scientific paper?

3 LHC - why (physics) and UK participation (how) - construction and exploitation

Speaker: Mark Thomson (Cambridge)

4 Building and operating the collider!

Speaker: Michael Lamont (CERN)

11:55 AM Lunch

5 Introduction of the LHC detector design and construction phase

Speaker: Sir Jim Virdee

6 Paper presentations: building the detectors

A slice of history, with a proponent of a paper describing its essential aims and outcomes and its place in the LHC story.

Speaker: Silvia Gambetta

7 Industry links

Speaker: Steve McMahon

8 Industry after a PhD (Hardware)

9 Big data: the LHC computing challenge

Speaker: Katy Ellis

10 Industry after a PhD (Software)

11 Introduction: first beam and Higgs discovery

Speaker: Dave Charlton (Birmingham)

12 Paper presentations: Higgs Discovery

Speaker: Kristin Lohwasser

13 Paper presentations: Analysis since

Speakers: Harry Cliff, Sarah Malik

3:10 PM Tea

14 Physics Opportunities in Run 3

Speaker: Chris Parkes

15 HL-LHC construction: Detectors

Speaker: Helen Hayward

16 HL-LHC construction: Accelerator

Speaker: Graeme Burt

17 Societal impact

Speaker: Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex)

18 HL-LHC Physics

Speaker: Matthew McCullough

19 Impressions on the day - PhD students

Speaker: Estifa'a Zaid

5:30 PM Drinks reception