Physics Colloquium with Tim Andeen

Abstract: The ATLAS experimenters at CERN's Large Hadron Collider are exploring our femtoscopic universe by searching for exotic new particles. Discovering these minuscule motes of matter would have a tremendous impact on our understanding of the universe as a whole: potentially unraveling the secrets of dark matter or the source of the Higgs boson mass. We will dive into the latest results of searches with top quark signatures and long-lived particles. We'll also look forward to future detectors, discussing both the ATLAS detector upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC and prospects for future colliders. Work on intelligent sensors for the Allegro detector concept at a proposed future circular collider at CERN will be presented.