The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operated by CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Accelerators at CERN boost particles to high energies before they are made to collide inside large detector systems. At LHC short-lived, massive and rare new particles are produced in proton-proton collisions – the most renown being the Higgs-boson, before usually dying into more known and stable particles that enter the detector systems. The detectors gather information about the particles – including their momentum, energy and charge – to work out the particle's identity and combine the information to understand what happened when the initial protons collided.

This conference will address the challenges and technological solutions used in particle detectors systems at CERN, and also how the scientific community plans, develops, constructs and operates these instruments. Development of micro-engineered solutions for novel particle detector types and applications in high-energy physics and other fields will also be discussed.

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Bio

Mar Capeáns has a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and an MBA from the University of Lausanne (HEC-Business School) and EPFL. She joined CERN in 1992. She carried out her PhD thesis in the Detector Development group led by Georges Charpak (who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992). After six years working on particle detectors R&D for the experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), she participated from 1998 in the construction of a large tracking detector at HERA-B experiment at DESY (Germany). In 2000 she returned to CERN and became member of the scientific staff of the ATLAS experiment at LHC, participating in several phases of the construction of particle detectors for the experiment in collaboration with many groups worldwide. In 2005 she joined the Detector Technologies Group at CERN, which she currently leads. She has published more than 450 scientific articles in the field of High Energy Physics and instrumentation.