ORNL Group Leads Calorimeter Upgrade for Large Hadron Collider Experiment
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 16:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Run-2 for the Large Hadron Collider--the world's largest and most powerful particle collider--began April 5 at CERN. In preparation, Thomas M. Cormier, who leads the LHC Heavy Ion group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led an upgrade of the electromagnetic calorimeter used for LHC's experiment called ALICE (for A Large Ion Collider Experiment). This detector measures the energies of high-energy electrons and gamma rays emitted from the quark-gluon plasma.