CERN is the biggest high energy physics laboratory in Europe. Researchers and students from the AGH University participate in research conducted in all four large experiments on the Large Hadron Collider: ALICE, ATLAS, LHCb, and CMS/TOTEM.
During the meeting, we will talk about CERN's mission and the ATLAS international collaboration, which has just celebrated its 30th anniversary. We will speak about the process of collecting data on the LHC and its analysis. We will also tell you what an experiment trigger is and about the role of the AGH University CYFRONET in analysing the data collected at CERN. We will point out what physicists learn when analysing proton-proton collisions and what heavy ion collisions are. As for the latter, we will focus on a special class of these collisions called ultra-peripheral collisions. Finally, we will tell you what is the relation between this class of collisions with lightsabers.
What is more, we will talk about the challenges faced by the ion physicists at CERN, in particular how the preparation of a scientific publication with about 3000 authors looks like. We will also touch upon the topic of the influence of research and inventions from CERN on daily life as well as of the activities and research in which participate scientists and students from the AGH University. Finally, we will tell you about the events promoting CERN and its research among the public.
Professor Iwona Grabowska-Bołd
Employee of the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at the AGH University. Her doctoral thesis was devoted to the topic of experimental ion physics and contained an analysis of data from electron-proton collisions registered in the ZEUS detector in Hamburg. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the CERN laboratory, first as a research fellow and then as a project scientist at the University of California, Irvine. Since 2005, she has been a member of the ATLAS experiment on the LHC. In her research, she is focused on studying heavy-ion collisions in the ATLAS detector. Moreover, she has a leading contribution to the development of the experiment trigger system. Since 2015, Professor Grabowska-Bołd has represented the AGH University and the Jagiellonian University on the ATLAS Collaboration Board. In the experiment, she was the coordinator of the heavy ion physics group. Currently, she is a member of the ATLAS Cooperation Board. Co-author of about 1000 scientific publications. Manager of numerous research projects.