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Learning to See at the Large Hadron Collider
The staged commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider presents an opportunity
to map gross features of particle production over a significant energy range. I
suggest a visual tool - event displays in (pseudo)rapidity-transverse-momentum
space - as a scenic route that may help sharpen intuition, identify interesting
classes of events for further investigation, and test expectations about the
underlying event that accompanies large-transverse-momentum phenomena.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, pdfte
Realizing the Potential of Quarkonium
I recall the development of quarkonium quantum mechanics after the discovery
of . I emphasize the empirical approach to determining the force
between quarks from the properties of and bound states. I
review the application of scaling laws, semiclassical methods, theorems and
near-theorems, and inverse-scattering techniques. I look forward to the next
quarkonium spectroscopy in the system.Comment: 16 pages, 8 eps figures, uses aipproc and boxedeps. Symposium on
Twenty Beautiful Years of Bottom Physics, IIT, 29 June - 2 July 1997
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Particle Physics-Future Directions
Wonderful opportunities await particle physics over the next decade, with the
coming of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to explore the 1-TeV scale
(extending efforts at LEP and the Tevatron to unravel the nature of electroweak
symmetry breaking) and many initiatives to develop our understanding of the
problem of identity: what makes a neutrino a neutrino and a top quark a top
quark. Here I have in mind the work of the B factories and the Tevatron
collider on CP violation and the weak interactions of the b quark; the
wonderfully sensitive experiments at Brookhaven, CERN, Fermilab, and Frascati
on CP violation and rare decays of kaons; the prospect of definitive
accelerator experiments on neutrino oscillations and the nature of the
neutrinos; and a host of new experiments on the sensitivity frontier. We might
even learn to read experiment for clues about the dimensionality of spacetime.
If we are inventive enough, we may be able to follow this rich menu with the
physics opportunities offered by a linear collider and a (muon storage ring)
neutrino factory. I expect a remarkable flowering of experimental particle
physics, and of theoretical physics that engages with experiment. I describe
some of the great questions before us and the challenges of providing the
instruments that will be needed to define them more fully and-eventually-to
answer them.Comment: Invited paper at the 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago; 5
pages; uses JAC2001.cls (included
Perspectives on Heavy Quark 98
I summarize and comment upon some highlights of HQ98, the Workshop on Heavy
Quarks (strange, charm, and beauty) at Fixed Target.Comment: Summary talk at HQ98. 21 pages, uses aipproc (included
Perspectives in High-Energy Physics
I sketch some pressing questions in several active areas of particle physics
and outline the challenges they present for the design and operation of
detectors.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures, uses aipproc (included) and boxedeps. Review
lecture at the ICFA Instrumentation School, Istanbul, 30 June 199
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