On February, 29th Tiziano Camporesi, the Head of the CMS experiment (CERN), visited MEPhI and gave a lecture “Physics at the Large Hadron Collider” for the university students, post-graduate students and employees. The meeting has been organized by the Centre of “Nanostructured electronics”.
Tiziano Camporesi was talking about appearing and development of the universe from the point of view of modern science. He also told about what has been discovered so far and what is to be researched. Tiziano Camporesi has paid special attention to the long-sought Higgs boson discovery which has completed the Standard Model. This is the name of the theory describing the world around us which is based on the experiment. However, it does not explain the dark matter which is 5 times larger than the ordinary matter in the universe. There are other drawbacks of the Standard Model. Hence the scientists believe that there is another theory which would explain the Standard Model and give answers to many questions including the dark matter.
The visitors of the lecture have been interested both in scientific and technological details. For example, they were wondering about the expected discoveries in physics and the work of the detector when there appear more colliding particles than now. Tiziano Camporesi said that one of the possible ways is measuring of the particle arrival time with 10 picosecond precision.
The Head of CMS has highlighted the importance of MEPhI participation in the experiment and has welcomed the students to join the research. A group of physicians from our university has worked in 3 directions. They have been calibrating a calorimeter, making detectors ready for future CMS modernizations which will be radiation-stable, and have researched beauty quarks.
CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) at the LHC is one of the largest world experiments in which more than 3500 people, including MEPhI employees, take part.
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Tiziano Camporesi graduated from Physics Falulty of Bologna University in 1981. He has worked in CERN since 1986. He joined the DELPHI experiment at the CERN LEP collider. Now he is in charge of CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) work. Tiziano Camporesi has published more than 700 articles in international journals.
