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23.11.2011 Exhibition and Presentation for the "Day of the World Machine"
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With a five day lasting exhibition and an evening program, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Heidelberg takes part in the Day of the World Machine. Particle physicists from 20 german universities celebrate two years of successful work since the start of the Large Hadron Collider. Further information: |
04.10-05.10.2010 Third Detector Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale"
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October 04-05, 2010, 3rd workshop for the Novel Detector Development within the Terascale Alliance takes place at the University of Heidelberg, on the Campus Im Neuenheimer Feld. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the German community active in detector development for particle physics and to discuss latest results and perspectives within the alliance detector projects and beyond. |
30.03.2010 First Collisions at 7 TeV
On Tuesday afternoon, for the first time the LHC achieved 7 TeV collisions and ATLAS recorded their first proton-proton collision events at this record energy.
11.01-13.01.2010 ATLAS L1Calo Trigger Meeting
The ATLAS group at KIP hosts the first
Level-1
Calorimeter Trigger Joint Meeting after restart of the LHC.
Topics are trigger operation, first performance results,
status of the calibration, as well as upgrade options.
The meeting takes place at the International Wissenschaftsforum
of the Heidelberg University.
28.11-20.12.2009 LHC Exhibition
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What is the LHC? Scientists from all over the world want to gain insight into the Big Bang using this huge research instrument. From November 28 to December 20, right in time for the restart of LHC, the exhibition Weltmaschine ("World Machine") is hosted at KIP. |
20.11.2009 The LHC is back!
November 20, particle beams are once again circulating in the LHC. A clockwise circulating beam was established at ten o'clock in the evening, followed by a circulating beam in the other direction a few hours later. The first so-called "Beam Splash" events were observed in the ATLAS-Detektor. For these events the beam in one arm of the LHC was dumped onto closed collimators located 140 meters upstream and downstream of ATLAS. The collision leads to a large number of detectable secondary particles longitudinally traversing the detector. A few days later, on 23rd November, the first collisions at 0.9 TeV total energy have been observed in ATLAS.
- CERN press release 20.11.2009
- CERN press release 23.11.2009
- ATLAS NEWS: First collisions in ATLAS
- LHC First Physics
24-25.07.2009 Hengstberger Symposium "Extra Dimensions and Mini Black Holes"
July 24-25, 2009, the
Hengstberger Symposium
"Extra Dimensions and Mini Black Holes"
takes place at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH).
The symposium is organised by V. Lendermann (KIP)
and S. Groot Nibbelink (ITP).
The goal of the symposium is to bring together theoreticians and
experimentalists in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics,
cosmology and gravity, in order to discuss the present status of
the searches for signatures of extra dimensions. The discussion
is held especially considering the upcoming data taking at
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A particular focus is placed on the
hypothetic production of mini black holes predicted by models of
extra dimensions.
On Saturday 25.07, at 7 pm, a public talk
"Black holes at the collider LHC?" takes place
at the Old University Hall. The speaker is Prof. Siegfried Bethke, Director at
the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich.
01.07.2009 Funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for major research projects on the structure of matter
In the framework of its so-called Integrated Research Programme the Federal Ministry of Education and Research will be providing funding to the tune of 7 million euros to assure the participation of Heidelberg University's nuclear and elementary-particle physicists in major research projects investigating the structure of matter. In the upcoming three-year funding period beginning in early July, this again puts Heidelberg's physicists right at the head of the field competing for integrated research funding in Germany. Heidelberg's Institutes of Physics have so far received funding amounting to some 22.9 million euros from the Integrated Research Programme for (amongst other things) their involvement in experiments conducted with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva.
16.10.2008 KIP ATLAS research fellow wins Hengstberger Prize
The University of Heidelberg awards the Hengstberger Prize 2008 to four young talented researchers. The prize winners work in psychology, ancient history and physics. The prize money is given for the organisation of a symposium in the International Science Forum. Two out of the four prize winners are particle physicists Dr. Victor Lendermann (KIP, ATLAS experiment at CERN) and Dr. Stefan Groot Nibbelink (Institute for Theoretical Physics). In July 2009 they will organise a symposium on ''Extra Dimensions and Mini Black Holes''.
10.09.2008 First beam in the LHC
September 10, 2008, the first proton beam with an energy of 0.45 TeV ran through the whole ring of the Large Hadron Collider. The picture shows the energy loss of the beam in the ATLAS detector. Such energy loss occurs due to interactions of the beam with the machine elements or with the rest gas in the beam pipe.
