Guest Speaker
Dr. Simon Viel
Chamberlain Physics Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
The question of physics beyond the Standard Model remains as crucial as it was before the discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as the shortcomings of the Standard Model remain unresolved. Many hypotheses addressing these issues predict the existence of new heavy particles within the reach of LHC experiments. The full potential of ATLAS and CMS will be realized at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), designed to deliver 100 times the collision data currently available. After presenting selected ATLAS searches with the current dataset and their prospects at the HL-LHC, this talk will discuss the ATLAS upgrade program with a focus on recent developments towards the Inner Tracker upgrade design.