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Oliver Brüning, Lucio Rossi and Paolo Spagnolo will present their new book at the CERN Library:
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the highest energy collider ever built. The tunnel, 3.8m wide with a circumference of 26.7km, was excavated in 1983-1988 to house the electron-positron collider LEP. It is now hosting the LHC, which is in operation since March 2010. The LHC has delivered a huge set of integrated luminosity for physics analyses in the four collider experiments: ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE. In 2026-2029 the High Luminosity LHC aimed at collecting ten times more luminosity will be installed, extending the collider life to the early 2040's.
The book is driven by the realization of the unique value of this accelerator complex and by the recognition of the status of high energy physics, described by a Standard Model — which still leaves too many questions unanswered to be the appropriate theory of elementary particles and their interactions.The book is composed of three chapters which focus on the initial decade of operation; on the techniques and physics of the luminosity upgrade; and finally on major options of using the LHC in a concurrent, power economic electron-hadron scattering mode, when upgraded to higher proton energies or eventually as an injector for the next big machine. The various technical and physics chapters, provided by 61 authors, characterise the fascinating opportunities the LHC offers for the next two decades ahead (and possibly longer), with the goal to substantially advance our understanding of nature.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and signing sessions. The book is available from the CERN Library & Bookshop.
About the speakers:
Lucio Rossi is full professor at the Physics department of the University of Milan, and he is expert in accelerators, superconductivity and large instrumentation for nuclear and particle physics.In the years at CERN (2001-2020) he was responsible of the Superconducting Magnets and Superconductors of the LHC and, in 2010, he proposed the High Luminosity LHC project (HL-LHC), that he lead until his retirement from CERN in 2020. Now he is full professor at the Physics Dept of University of Milan and is coordinator of the IRIS project, a new research infrastructure in Italy, involving INFN, CNR and five Universities. IRIS aims at developing innovative superconducting technology for next generation accelerators and for societal applications in the medical and green energy sectors.He was awarded the IEEE-Council of Superconductivity Award in 2007 for the LHC magnets, the EPS Rolf Wideröe Award for accelerators in 2020 and the Enrico Fermi Prize by the Italian Society of Physics in 2023. Active in outreach, discussing themes like science and technology, certainty and truth and he has also published an autobiographical book: La conoscenza è un‘avventura , Bietti publisher, Milano, 2022.
Paolo Spagnolo is research director at the INFN, Pisa, Italy. He is member of CMS and in the Italian review board of the LHCb Experiment and the LHC Computing. He is also the author and co-author of about 1350 papers with a h-index=184. He is also a co-founder of the CERN spin-off Planetwatch.Paolo has gathered many years of expertise in Particle Physics, data analysis and detector development, from his time working at CERN, where he was Research Fellow and Scientific Associate within the ALEPH and the CMS collaborations.After the Higgs discovery, to address the issue of the Physics beyond the Standard Model, he started to work on searching for light Dark Matter beyond the Colliders and proposed STAX: a new experimental concept to search for Axions in laboratory with microwaves high power source, through the Primakov effect.
Oliver S. Brüning is a senior scientist at CERN. He is specialized in accelerator physics and has worked on several flagship accelerator projects since 1991. His involvement in accelerator projects is ranging from non-linear beam dynamics studies and the commissioning of the HERA electron-proton collider at DESY, to the LEP-II upgrade and the LHC design and commissioning at CERN. He was one of the initial LHC Commissioning coordinators from 2008 until 2013 and has led the CERN Accelerator Beam Physics group from 2005 until 2015. Since 2010 he has been the deputy project leader of the HL-LHC upgrade and is leading the project since 2021.He is a member of the EPS-AG and has chaired the Accelerator Group from 2008 until 2011. He was the Scientific Program Chair of the EPAC 2008 conference and chaired the 2011 IPAC conference.He has coordinated the accelerator design of the LHeC and FCC-eh studies since 2008 and promoted the development of Energy Recovery Linacs since 2012 as a vital ingredient for the LHeC and FCC-eh studies. In this role he has been participating in several international advisory boards on ERL related studies.
Max Klein, a co-editor of the book, has sadly passed away briefly before the talk, please find his obituary here: https://home.cern/news/obituary/physics/max-klein-1951-2024