60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

LHC Experiments:ATLAS, CMS & LHCb

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Proton - Proton Collisions @ LHC

Switzerland contributes to the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments of the LHC. This involvement started in 1996. A computing centre of type Tier-2 – located at the Swiss National Computing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano – is an additional Swiss participation. ATLAS and CMS jointly discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, which led to the Nobel Prize of 2013. The overall involvement of students in the LHC development and data analysis lead to the completion of 115 master theses and 109 doctoral theses by Oct. 2013.

since 2008

ATLAS LHCb

With a diameter of 25m and a length of 46m, ATLAS is the largest LHC experiment. Switzerland contributes to:• Superconducting cables and

casings for the barrel toroid coils• Silicon strip tracking detector• Calorimeter readout

electronics• Event transfer, building and

high-level triggers• Online data logging system• Tier-3 data analysis facilities • The “Insertable Pixel Layer”

CMS

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

60 years of Particle Accelerators

Accelerator Developments 1954 - 2014

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

CLIC, HL-LHC & FCCFuture Accelerators: The Energy Frontier Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

L3 ExperimentElectron - Positron Collisions @ LEP Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

NOMAD & OPERANeutrino Programme Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

WA42, WA62 [ + NA10 ] [ + DIRAC ]

Fixed Target Programme @ SPS [ & PS] Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

UA2 & UA6Proton - Antiproton Collisions @ SPS Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

NA52 [ + WA 98 ]Fixed Target Programme @ SPS (Heavy Ions) Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

Implementation of CERN in Geneva

Politics and Public Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

From Bubble-chambers to Wire-chambers

Early-Day Detectors Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

AMS I & IIParticle Physics in Space Dates ?

60 years of Swiss Science at CERN

SPS/CHIPP Annual Meeting 2014Fribourg, 30 June – 2 July 2014

LEAR & CPLEAR ExeprimentsLow-Energy Antiproton Programme @ PS Dates ?