Annual Departmental Research Event: Particle Physics

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15 → 16:45 Europe/London

Particle Physics deals with the building blocks of all matter in the universe and of the fundamental forces that operate between them. We try to understand what happens when high energy particles are smashed into each other at very high energies and we provide the theory and analysis behind a number of experiments to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and elsewhere. We are seeking answers to some of the Universe's greatest secrets such as the mysteries surrounding antimatter and dark matter, the possibility of extra space-time dimensions and the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. The talks will demonstrate the diversity of research within the Particle Physics research group at Durham

14:15 → 14:20 Welcome

Speaker: Nigel Glover

Slides Particle_Theory_Section.ppt

14:20 → 14:40 Simulating physics at the LHC

Speaker: Peter Richardson

Slides DurhamResearchEvent.ppt

14:45 → 15:05 Hunting for New Physics: Higgs, SUSY and beyond

Speaker: Georg Weiglein

Slides deptres.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 tea

15:30 → 15:50 Fundamental Physics @ Low Energies

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel

Slides JJ.pdf

15:55 → 16:15 The role of neutrinos in the evolution of the Universe

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli

Slides Pascolineutrino.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Detecting cosmic strings

Speaker: Ruth Gregory