09:30 Welcome & Coffee

10:00 Matthias Danninger (SFU): The secret lives of Long-Lived Particles at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract: For the last few decades, High Energy Physics has been a victim of itsown early success. Despite numerous theoretical arguments why it cannot be thefinal explanation for the interactions of fundamental particles, the Standard Modelof particle physics continues to withstand intense scrutiny of the most determinedexperimental physicists. One promising way to search for signs of new physics is at the Large Hadron Collider, probing energies comparable to those present veryshortly after the Big Bang.

In the past, we often assumed that new particles produced in particle collisionswould decay immediately. But what if new particles had long lifetimes and traveledcentimetres — even kilometres — before transforming into something we coulddetect? Muons, for instance, can travel several kilometres before decaying. In thistalk, I will discuss the challenges and strategies we use in searches for signs of long-lived new particle signatures in the ATLAS experiment. I will highlight what we haveachieved experimentally thus far and why we still can be excited for more data inthe future. 

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Rasmus Orsoe (TUM): GraphNeT - a deep learning library for neutrinotelescopes and related experiments

12:15 End

Venue: Telescopium Auditorium, ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching