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The Physics Program at the PS & SPS: CERN's Unique Scientific Breadth
Christoph Rembser (CERN)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00
While the main focus over the past years has shifted towards flagship
experiments at colliders, a rich and exciting physics program
is still carried out at the CERN Proton-Synchrotron (PS) and
Super-Proton-Synchrotron (SPS), attracting large scientific communities
from the various fields of physics.
In my talk I will introduce the CERN PS and SPS accelerators which are
successfully and efficiently operating since many years and
which are providing a wide range of different particle beams.
This beams with energies up to 450 GeV are used in various experimental
facilities like the Antiproton Decelerator, the Neutron Time-of-Flight
facility, the PS and SPS experimental areas and at the CNGS beamline which
provides a beam of high-energy neutrinos to the Gran Sasso laboratory about
730 km away from CERN. I will present an overview on the physics program of
CERNs "lower energy" accelerators and will report on its experiments.
As from this year onwards the PS and SPS also serve as injectors for the
Large Hadron Collider LHC, I will review their operation modes and possible
injector upgrades which will ensure to keep CERN's unique scientific breadth
and that the experiments at the PS and SPS will remain an important and
indispensable part of the laboratories activities.
