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Andreas Hoecker

Andreas Hoecker

Andreas Hoecker’s research in elementary particle physics covers collider physics experiments at CERN and Stanford, USA. He studied physics at Bonn, Germany and earned his PhD at Orsay, France in the 1990s. During that time he studied the properties of the tau-lepton, the heavy cousin of electron, and strong interactions with the ALEPH and OPAL experiments at CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider. In 1998 he became Scientist at the French CNRS organisation and joined the BABAR experiment at Stanford’s National Accelerator Lab (SLAC), where he was responsible for the particle identification

ATLAS prepares for High-Luminosity LHC

The ATLAS Collaboration submitted three documents to the European Strategy Group (ESG), namely, an overview of the extensive ATLAS detector upgrade for the HL-LHC, a summary of the software and computing preparations to address the HL-LHC challenges, and a joint update with CMS on HL-LHC physics expectations.

2 April 2025

ATLAS presents new results at Moriond conference

This year’s 50th anniversary edition of the “Moriond Electroweak and Unified Theories” conference at La Thuile in Italy featured the presentation and discussion of first results from the LHC full-year 2015 data samples (“Run 2”) collected by the LHC experiments at unprecedented 13 TeV proton-proton collision energy.

21 March 2016

Setting off to new energy horizons

After a shutdown of more than two years, Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is restarting at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV for proton–proton collisions and increased luminosity. This new phase will allow the LHC experiments to explore nature and probe the physical laws governing it at scales never reached before.

4 June 2015