About the US/LHC Project

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland is opening new vistas on the deepest secrets of the universe, stretching the imagination with newly discovered forms of matter, forces of nature, and dimensions of space. This site provides general information about the Large Hadron Collider and detailed information about American participation in the LHC accelerator and experiments. U.S. LHC participation is supported by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Courtesy: CERN)

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University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina has two faculty members, one post doc, one graduate and one undergraduate student participating in the ATLAS experiment.

Construction Contributions

We worked on various aspects of the software of the Cathode Strip Chambers mainly built by Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Current Projects and Future Goals

We continue with CSC software efforts, as well as beam luminosity measurements.

Data taking has commenced and we are working on extracting SUSY signals and charm quark related measurements.

USC Collaborators include Milind Purohit and Roberto Petti of the University of South Carolina faculty, post-doc Woochun Park, graduate student Arjun Trivedi, and undergraduate student Reginald Bain. Image Courtesy USC.