Honorary Lecture - Prof. Aurelio Bay: "Comment réaliser un détecteur de particules de précision"
"Comment réaliser un détecteur de particules de précision"
LHCb is one of the experiments which use the collisions of beams in one of the interaction regions of the LHC accelerator at CERN. Its mission is an attempt to answer questions of fundamental physics, such as the problem of matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe and the origin of dark matter. The LHCb Collaboration has 1,200 members from 73 institutes in 16 countries around the world. The Lausanne group is one of the founding members of LHCb. The purpose of this presentation is to show in a simple (but by no means exhaustive) way how such an instrument can be built for precision measurements.
Biography
Aurelio Bay was a Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) from 1994 to 2003 and then at EPFL from 2003 to 2020. He has been the thesis director of 27 PhDs. He was vice-dean of the UNIL Faculty of Sciences and actively participated in the implementation of the project which resulted in the transfer
of the Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics Sections from UNIL to EPFL. He was director of the UNIL College of Sciences from 2015 to 2020. An experimental high-energy physicist, he has taken part in several experiments in Switzerland at PSI and CERN (L3, LHCb, SND), in Japan (Belle), and in the United States (TPC/2γ). Director of the High Energy Physics Laboratory from 1998 to 2020, the laboratory is a founding member of the LHCb experiment with important responsibilities in its construction as well as in the exploitation of data. He was a member of the working group for the creation of the Swiss Particle Physics Institute (CHIPP).
LHCb is one of the experiments which use the collisions of beams in one of the interaction regions of the LHC accelerator at CERN. Its mission is an attempt to answer questions of fundamental physics, such as the problem of matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe and the origin of dark matter. The LHCb Collaboration has 1,200 members from 73 institutes in 16 countries around the world. The Lausanne group is one of the founding members of LHCb. The purpose of this presentation is to show in a simple (but by no means exhaustive) way how such an instrument can be built for precision measurements.
Biography
Aurelio Bay was a Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) from 1994 to 2003 and then at EPFL from 2003 to 2020. He has been the thesis director of 27 PhDs. He was vice-dean of the UNIL Faculty of Sciences and actively participated in the implementation of the project which resulted in the transfer
of the Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics Sections from UNIL to EPFL. He was director of the UNIL College of Sciences from 2015 to 2020. An experimental high-energy physicist, he has taken part in several experiments in Switzerland at PSI and CERN (L3, LHCb, SND), in Japan (Belle), and in the United States (TPC/2γ). Director of the High Energy Physics Laboratory from 1998 to 2020, the laboratory is a founding member of the LHCb experiment with important responsibilities in its construction as well as in the exploitation of data. He was a member of the working group for the creation of the Swiss Particle Physics Institute (CHIPP).
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