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General Information
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Our
Objectives
- To promote and coordinate research in HEP in Australia.
- To encourage theoretical HEP, and in particular the
symbiosis between theory and experiment.
- With the consent of the members to act as the
representative body in Australia in a large number of areas, both
domestic and international.
- The promotion and coordination of cooperation in the
sharing of resources.
- The coordination of courses, specialised schools and
workshops, and the organisation of public lectures.
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP)
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) was established in 2011 through the award of an
Australian Research Council grant of around $25 million over seven years.
The Centre is a collaborative research venture between the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, the University of Sydney and Monash University, with the
University of Melbourne hosting the head office.
Through the Centre, terascale, high-energy and particle physics research across Australia is coordinated for the first time. Bringing together theoretical and
experimental physicists, CoEPP also enables participation in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. The aims of the LHC experiment,
and those of CoEPP, are to discover answers to some of the fundamental questions in physics, questions that have until now been unanswerable.
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Experimental
Physics
Australian high energy physicists
participate in a number of international collaborative experiments at
the frontier of science and technology. We play an integral role in
their construction, maintenance and operation, as well as working
together with other institutes to interpret the final results. The two
main experiments in which AUSHEP member institutes participate are:
- ATLAS
- situated at CERN (European
Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Switzerland and France
- Belle II
- situated at KEK (High Energy
Accelerator Research Organisation) in Japan
AUSHEP member institutes are leading the following planned experiments:
- SABRE-south
- dark matter direct detection experiment situated at SUPL
(Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory) in Victoria, Australia
In the not too distant past, AUSHEP member institutes
participated in the following experiments:
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Theoretical
Physics
For more information about theoretical particle physics in
Australia please visit:
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Future
Bodies and projects charting the future of the field.
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ICFA - The International Committee for Future Accelerators
- ACFA
- The Asian Committee for Future Accelerators
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ILC - The International Linear Collider
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Contact
Further information on the program at each institute,
with contact names and addresses, can be obtained from the associated
web pages found here, or by contacting:
Chairperson:
Professor Geoffrey Taylor
School of Physics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344.5456
Fax: +61 3 9347.4783
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Secretary and Treasurer:
Associate Professor Nicole Bell
School of Physics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344.3112
Fax: +61 3 9347.4783
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HEP Links
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