Journal Club
School of Physical Sciences
Giant Accelerators: Why is Particle Physics = High Energy Physics ?
Prof. R. Rajaraman
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics
School of Physical Sciences, JNU
Date: November 6, 2017 (Monday) Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Seminar Hall, SPS
Abstract: After the Higgs Boson was discovered, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, where this particle was detected, came into larger public prominence. While primarily designed for exploring very fundamental physics, LHC is also an extraordinary engineering marvel. But it is just the last in a series of large accelerators of increasing energy and varying designs that have been used by particle-physicists for decades to pursue their subject. This talk will be at an introduction to accelerators, their history, the basic physics behind their design and the reasons why they are needed for doing particle physics. The talk will be designed to be understandable to SPS students.