Annual Departmental Research Event: Particle Physics

Friday May 29, 2009, 2:15 PM → 4:45 PM 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

2:15 PM → 2:20 PM Welcome

Speaker: Nigel Glover

Slides Particle_Theory_Section.ppt

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Simulating physics at the LHC

Speaker: Peter Richardson

Slides DurhamResearchEvent.ppt

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Hunting for New Physics: Higgs, SUSY and beyond

Speaker: Georg Weiglein

Slides deptres.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM tea

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM Fundamental Physics @ Low Energies

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel

Slides JJ.pdf

3:55 PM → 4:15 PM The role of neutrinos in the evolution of the Universe

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli

Slides Pascolineutrino.pdf

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM Detecting cosmic strings

Speaker: Ruth Gregory