P H Y S I C S
C O L L O Q U I U M

Richard Cavanaugh
University of Florida

"The LHC and CMS:  Probing the Great Questions of Particle Physics and 
Cosmology"

ABSTRACT
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest scientific instrument 
ever built and is expected to circulate and collide proton-proton beams 
later this year at a center-of-mass energy of seven times higher than 
any previous collider, probing distances more than 1000 times smaller 
than size of a proton.  In this talk, I will discuss the potential for 
the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector (CMS), one of four experiments at the 
LHC, to discover new phenomena beyond the Standard Model of Particle 
Physics, including the exciting possibility that dark matter might be 
produced in the laboratory.  Finally, I will discuss some of the 
computing advances which are being pioneered by the high energy physics 
community to address the new challenges of data intensive science.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
4:00 p.m.
ENPH 202