Another meeting of the employees of Russian institutes, scientific centres, and universities on physics and computer calculations in the ATLAS experiment Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been held in MEPhI.
The meeting is traditionally held twice a year and is aimed to help exchange scientific experience and ideas among colleagues from different Russian institutes, which are in the collaboration of the ATLAS experiment. Apart from overview reports from each laboratory, participants represent reports with new research results in separate directions.

This time the program of the conference included 15 reports from the following institutes: ITEP (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics), Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR), Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), National Research Tomsk State University (TSU), Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), and Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI). MEPhI was represented by three reports of young PhD students.

One of the main topics of the reports has become “exotic” physics, which covers a wide range of theories of Standard Model (SM) expansion. This direction includes the search for particles of Supersymmetric model, additional dimensions, dark matter particles, and other exotic aspects of new physics. Currently, research in this field hasn’t shown statistically significant deviations from the Standard Model, but new energies of proton collisions and expected high statistics in the second session of the LHC work, which started in 2015, allow optimistically observe future research and discoveries.

Moreover, at the meeting there was discussion of results, connected with direct check predictions of SM on new energies for proton-proton and ion-ion collisions, and work on support and modernization of detecting system of the ATLAS experiment, where employees of Russian universities work.

In the middle of the last year CERN’s director for research and computing Eckhard Elsen said about physical analyses, conducted in the LHC experiments: “In 2015 we opened doors to absolutely new lands with unprecedented energy. Now it’s time to research them.” MEPhI will be glad to host everyone again to discuss these discoveries.